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Agenda_Vol_02
Agenda_Vol_03
Agenda_Vol_04
Agenda_Vol_05
Agenda_Vol_06
Agenda_Vol_07
Agenda_Vol_08
Agenda_Vol_09
Agenda_Vol_10
Agenda_Vol_11
Agenda_Vol_12
Big_Mind,_Big_Heart
DND_DM_Guide_5E
Enchiridion_text
Full_Circle
General_Principles_of_Kabbalah
Heart_of_Matter
Life_without_Death
Modern_Man_in_Search_of_a_Soul
My_Burning_Heart
On_Interpretation
On_Thoughts_And_Aphorisms
Process_and_Reality
Questions_And_Answers_1955
Savitri
Spiral_Dynamics
The_Book_of_Secrets__Keys_to_Love_and_Meditation
The_Categories
The_Diamond_Sutra
The_Divine_Milieu
The_Future_of_Man
The_Golden_Bough
The_Heros_Journey
The_Lotus_Sutra
The_Odyssey
The_Republic
The_Seals_of_Wisdom
The_Tarot_of_Paul_Christian
The_Use_and_Abuse_of_History
The_Way_of_Perfection
The_Wit_and_Wisdom_of_Alfred_North_Whitehead
The_Yoga_Sutras
Toward_the_Future

IN CHAPTERS TITLE
1.15_-_THE_DIRECTIONS_AND_CONDITIONS_OF_THE_FUTURE
1955-06-29_-_The_true_vital_and_true_physical_-_Time_and_Space_-_The_psychics_memory_of_former_lives_-_The_psychic_organises_ones_life_-_The_psychics_knowledge_and_direction

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IN CHAPTERS TEXT
00.03_-_Upanishadic_Symbolism
000_-_Humans_in_Universe
0.00_-_INTRODUCTION
0.00_-_The_Wellspring_of_Reality
0.02_-_Letters_to_a_Sadhak
0.04_-_The_Systems_of_Yoga
01.02_-_Natures_Own_Yoga
01.04_-_The_Poetry_in_the_Making
01.08_-_Walter_Hilton:_The_Scale_of_Perfection
01.09_-_William_Blake:_The_Marriage_of_Heaven_and_Hell
0.10_-_Letters_to_a_Young_Captain
01.11_-_The_Basis_of_Unity
0_1956-05-02
0_1956-10-28
0_1956-12-12
0_1958-07-06
0_1958-11-04_-_Myths_are_True_and_Gods_exist_-_mental_formation_and_occult_faculties_-_exteriorization_-_work_in_dreams
0_1960-06-07
0_1960-10-11
0_1960-10-30
0_1960-11-15
0_1960-12-17
0_1960-12-20
0_1961-01-12
0_1961-01-24
0_1961-03-04
0_1961-05-19
0_1961-06-27
0_1961-07-15
0_1961-07-28
0_1961-08-02
0_1961-09-28
0_1962-02-06
0_1962-05-31
0_1962-06-20
0_1962-07-14
0_1962-07-21
0_1962-08-04
0_1962-10-12
0_1962-11-17
0_1963-05-03
0_1963-06-08
0_1963-07-03
0_1963-10-19
0_1963-10-26
0_1963-12-03
0_1963-12-21
0_1964-06-27
0_1964-08-26
0_1964-10-28
0_1964-12-02
0_1965-04-17
0_1965-04-21
0_1965-06-14
0_1965-06-23
0_1965-06-30
0_1965-07-21
0_1965-07-28
0_1965-08-18
0_1965-08-21
0_1965-09-15a
0_1966-01-14
0_1966-01-22
0_1966-02-26
0_1966-03-26
0_1966-05-18
0_1966-10-19
0_1967-04-22
0_1967-05-20
0_1967-05-24
0_1967-06-03
0_1967-06-17
0_1967-07-15
0_1967-12-27
0_1967-12-30
0_1968-03-13
0_1968-04-10
0_1968-04-13
0_1968-05-22
0_1968-11-02
0_1968-12-04
0_1968-12-25
0_1969-02-05
0_1969-02-08
0_1969-08-09
0_1969-08-16
0_1969-08-23
0_1969-08-30
0_1969-10-11
0_1969-11-22
0_1969-11-29
0_1969-12-13
0_1970-01-10
0_1970-01-17
0_1970-02-21
0_1970-03-18
0_1970-05-20
0_1970-05-23
0_1970-05-27
0_1970-07-11
0_1970-07-25
0_1970-10-07
0_1971-01-23
0_1971-03-17
0_1971-04-28
0_1971-05-01
0_1971-05-15
0_1971-08-04
0_1971-10-13
0_1971-10-30
0_1971-12-25
0_1972-02-09
0_1972-03-10
0_1972-04-08
0_1972-12-20
0_1973-01-13
0_1973-03-17
0_1973-04-14
02.01_-_A_Vedic_Story
02.01_-_The_World_War
02.02_-_The_Message_of_the_Atomic_Bomb
02.03_-_An_Aspect_of_Emergent_Evolution
02.05_-_Federated_Humanity
02.06_-_Boris_Pasternak
02.06_-_The_Kingdoms_and_Godheads_of_the_Greater_Life
02.08_-_Jules_Supervielle
02.09_-_The_Way_to_Unity
02.11_-_New_World-Conditions
02.12_-_The_Ideals_of_Human_Unity
03.01_-_Humanism_and_Humanism
03.01_-_The_New_Year_Initiation
03.02_-_Aspects_of_Modernism
03.02_-_Yogic_Initiation_and_Aptitude
03.04_-_The_Body_Human
03.05_-_Some_Conceptions_and_Misconceptions
03.06_-_Divine_Humanism
03.06_-_The_Pact_and_its_Sanction
03.07_-_Brahmacharya
03.09_-_Sectarianism_or_Loyalty
03.10_-_The_Mission_of_Buddhism
03.11_-_The_Language_Problem_and_India
03.11_-_True_Humility
03.13_-_Human_Destiny
03.14_-_Mater_Dolorosa
03.17_-_The_Souls_Odyssey
04.01_-_The_March_of_Civilisation
04.02_-_Human_Progress
04.03_-_Consciousness_as_Energy
04.03_-_The_Eternal_East_and_West
04.04_-_Evolution_of_the_Spiritual_Consciousness
04.05_-_The_Freedom_and_the_Force_of_the_Spirit
04.06_-_Evolution_of_the_Spiritual_Consciousness
04.09_-_Values_Higher_and_Lower
05.03_-_Bypaths_of_Souls_Journey
05.04_-_The_Measure_of_Time
05.05_-_In_Quest_of_Reality
05.06_-_Physics_or_philosophy
05.07_-_The_Observer_and_the_Observed
05.08_-_True_Charity
05.09_-_Varieties_of_Religious_Experience
05.10_-_Knowledge_by_Identity
05.15_-_Sartrian_Freedom
05.27_-_The_Nature_of_Perfection
05.30_-_Theres_a_Divinity
05.34_-_Light,_more_Light
06.03_-_Types_of_Meditation
06.15_-_Ever_Green
06.17_-_Directed_Change
06.19_-_Mental_Silence
07.02_-_The_Parable_of_the_Search_for_the_Soul
07.02_-_The_Spiral_Universe
07.11_-_The_Problem_of_Evil
07.20_-_Why_are_Dreams_Forgotten?
07.21_-_On_Occultism
07.29_-_How_to_Feel_that_we_Belong_to_the_Divine
07.36_-_The_Body_and_the_Psychic
07.37_-_The_Psychic_Being,_Some_Mysteries
07.42_-_The_Nature_and_Destiny_of_Art
07.45_-_Specialisation
08.02_-_Order_and_Discipline
08.05_-_Will_and_Desire
08.20_-_Are_Not_The_Ascetic_Means_Helpful_At_Times?
08.33_-_Opening_to_the_Divine
09.02_-_Meditation
09.05_-_The_Story_of_Love
09.09_-_The_Origin
09.14_-_Education_of_Girls
100.00_-_Synergy
1.001_-_The_Aim_of_Yoga
1.002_-_The_Heifer
1.004_-_Women
10.05_-_Mind_and_the_Mental_World
1.007_-_Initial_Steps_in_Yoga_Practice
10.08_-_Consciousness_as_Freedom
1.008_-_The_Principle_of_Self-Affirmation
1.00a_-_DIVISION_A_-_THE_INTERNAL_FIRES_OF_THE_SHEATHS.
1.00a_-_Introduction
1.00d_-_Introduction
1.00e_-_DIVISION_E_-_MOTION_ON_THE_PHYSICAL_AND_ASTRAL_PLANES
1.00_-_Main
1.00_-_PREFACE_-_DESCENSUS_AD_INFERNOS
10.10_-_Education_is_Organisation
1.010_-_Self-Control_-_The_Alpha_and_Omega_of_Yoga
1.012_-_Sublimation_-_A_Way_to_Reshuffle_Thought
1.013_-_Defence_Mechanisms_of_the_Mind
1.014_-_Abraham
1.016_-_The_Bee
10.16_-_The_Relative_Best
1.01_-_A_NOTE_ON_PROGRESS
1.01_-_Economy
1.01_-_Foreward
1.01_-_How_is_Knowledge_Of_The_Higher_Worlds_Attained?
1.01_-_MAPS_OF_EXPERIENCE_-_OBJECT_AND_MEANING
1.01_-_MASTER_AND_DISCIPLE
1.01_-_Newtonian_and_Bergsonian_Time
1.01_-_Our_Demand_and_Need_from_the_Gita
1.01_-_Prayer
1.01_-_SAMADHI_PADA
1.01_-_THAT_ARE_THOU
1.01_-_the_Call_to_Adventure
1.01_-_The_First_Steps
1.01_-_The_Four_Aids
1.01_-_The_Highest_Meaning_of_the_Holy_Truths
1.01_-_THE_OPPOSITES
1.01_-_The_Path_of_Later_On
1.01_-_THE_STUFF_OF_THE_UNIVERSE
1.01_-_The_Unexpected
1.020_-_The_World_and_Our_World
1.02.4.2_-_Action_and_the_Divine_Will
1.024_-_Affiliation_With_Larger_Wholes
1.028_-_Bringing_About_Whole-Souled_Dedication
1.02_-_MAPS_OF_MEANING_-_THREE_LEVELS_OF_ANALYSIS
1.02_-_Meditating_on_Tara
1.02_-_Prana
1.02_-_Prayer_of_Parashara_to_Vishnu
1.02_-_SADHANA_PADA
1.02_-_Self-Consecration
1.02_-_Skillful_Means
1.02_-_SOCIAL_HEREDITY_AND_PROGRESS
1.02_-_Taras_Tantra
1.02_-_The_Age_of_Individualism_and_Reason
1.02_-_The_Child_as_growing_being_and_the_childs_experience_of_encountering_the_teacher.
1.02_-_The_Concept_of_the_Collective_Unconscious
1.02_-_The_Development_of_Sri_Aurobindos_Thought
1.02_-_The_Divine_Teacher
1.02_-_The_Great_Process
1.02_-_The_Magic_Circle
1.02_-_The_Stages_of_Initiation
1.02_-_The_Vision_of_the_Past
1.02_-_THE_WITHIN_OF_THINGS
1.02_-_What_is_Psycho_therapy?
1.02_-_Where_I_Lived,_and_What_I_Lived_For
1.031_-_Intense_Aspiration
1.032_-_Our_Concept_of_God
1.034_-_Sheba
1.035_-_The_Recitation_of_Mantra
1.036_-_The_Rise_of_Obstacles_in_Yoga_Practice
1.037_-_Preventing_the_Fall_in_Yoga
1.038_-_Impediments_in_Concentration_and_Meditation
1.03_-_A_Parable
1.03_-_APPRENTICESHIP_AND_ENCULTURATION_-_ADOPTION_OF_A_SHARED_MAP
1.03_-_Invocation_of_Tara
1.03_-_Meeting_the_Master_-_Meeting_with_others
1.03_-_On_Knowledge_of_the_World.
1.03_-_PERSONALITY,_SANCTITY,_DIVINE_INCARNATION
1.03_-_Questions_and_Answers
1.03_-_Supernatural_Aid
1.03_-_Sympathetic_Magic
1.03_-_The_Coming_of_the_Subjective_Age
1.03_-_THE_EARTH_IN_ITS_EARLY_STAGES
1.03_-_THE_GRAND_OPTION
1.03_-_THE_ORPHAN,_THE_WIDOW,_AND_THE_MOON
1.03_-_The_Phenomenon_of_Man
1.03_-_The_Psychic_Prana
1.03_-_The_Sephiros
1.03_-_The_Tale_of_the_Alchemist_Who_Sold_His_Soul
1.03_-_Time_Series,_Information,_and_Communication
1.03_-_To_Layman_Ishii
1.040_-_Re-Educating_the_Mind
1.04_-_ADVICE_TO_HOUSEHOLDERS
1.04_-_Body,_Soul_and_Spirit
1.04_-_Feedback_and_Oscillation
1.04_-_GOD_IN_THE_WORLD
1.04_-_Homage_to_the_Twenty-one_Taras
1.04_-_Magic_and_Religion
1.04_-_On_blessed_and_ever-memorable_obedience
1.04_-_On_Knowledge_of_the_Future_World.
1.04_-_SOME_REFLECTIONS_ON_PROGRESS
1.04_-_Sounds
1.04_-_The_Aims_of_Psycho_therapy
1.04_-_THE_APPEARANCE_OF_ANOMALY_-_CHALLENGE_TO_THE_SHARED_MAP
1.04_-_The_Crossing_of_the_First_Threshold
1.04_-_The_Discovery_of_the_Nation-Soul
1.04_-_The_Divine_Mother_-_This_Is_She
1.04_-_The_Fork_in_the_Road
1.04_-_The_Future_of_Man
1.04_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda
1.04_-_The_Origin_and_Development_of_Poetry.
1.04_-_The_Paths
1.04_-_The_Praise
1.04_-_The_Self
1.04_-_The_Silent_Mind
1.04_-_THE_STUDY_(The_Compact)
1.04_-_Vital_Education
1.04_-_Wake-Up_Sermon
1.053_-_A_Very_Important_Sadhana
1.056_-_Lack_of_Knowledge_is_the_Cause_of_Suffering
1.057_-_The_Four_Manifestations_of_Ignorance
1.05_-_Adam_Kadmon
1.05_-_ADVICE_FROM_A_CATERPILLAR
1.05_-_Buddhism_and_Women
1.05_-_Christ,_A_Symbol_of_the_Self
1.05_-_Computing_Machines_and_the_Nervous_System
1.05_-_Solitude
1.05_-_Some_Results_of_Initiation
1.05_-_The_Activation_of_Human_Energy
1.05_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_-_The_Psychic_Being
1.05_-_THE_HOSTILE_BROTHERS_-_ARCHETYPES_OF_RESPONSE_TO_THE_UNKNOWN
1.05_-_The_Magical_Control_of_the_Weather
1.05_-_The_New_Consciousness
1.05_-_THE_NEW_SPIRIT
1.05_-_The_Second_Circle__The_Wanton._Minos._The_Infernal_Hurricane._Francesca_da_Rimini.
1.05_-_True_and_False_Subjectivism
1.05_-_War_And_Politics
1.060_-_Tracing_the_Ultimate_Cause_of_Any_Experience
1.06_-_Being_Human_and_the_Copernican_Principle
1.06_-_Gestalt_and_Universals
1.06_-_LIFE_AND_THE_PLANETS
1.06_-_On_Induction
1.06_-_PIG_AND_PEPPER
1.06_-_Quieting_the_Vital
1.06_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Sacrifice_2_The_Works_of_Love_-_The_Works_of_Life
1.06_-_The_Breaking_of_the_Limits
1.06_-_The_Desire_to_be
1.06_-_The_Greatness_of_the_Individual
1.06_-_The_Literal_Qabalah
1.06_-_THE_MASTER_WITH_THE_BRAHMO_DEVOTEES
1.06_-_The_Sign_of_the_Fishes
1.06_-_Yun_Men's_Every_Day_is_a_Good_Day
1.070_-_The_Seven_Stages_of_Perfection
1.075_-_Self-Control,_Study_and_Devotion_to_God
1.078_-_Kumbhaka_and_Concentration_of_Mind
1.07_-_A_Song_of_Longing_for_Tara,_the_Infallible
1.07_-_Bridge_across_the_Afterlife
1.07_-_Hui_Ch'ao_Asks_about_Buddha
1.07_-_Medicine_and_Psycho_therapy
1.07_-_THE_.IMPROVERS._OF_MANKIND
1.07_-_The_Infinity_Of_The_Universe
1.07_-_The_Literal_Qabalah_(continued)
1.07_-_The_Mantra_-_OM_-_Word_and_Wisdom
1.07_-_THE_MASTER_AND_VIJAY_GOSWAMI
1.07_-_The_Prophecies_of_Nostradamus
1.07_-_TRUTH
1.081_-_The_Application_of_Pratyahara
1.083_-_Choosing_an_Object_for_Concentration
1.08a_-_The_Ladder
1.08_-_Independence_from_the_Physical
1.08_-_Information,_Language,_and_Society
1.08_-_ON_THE_TREE_ON_THE_MOUNTAINSIDE
1.08_-_Psycho_therapy_Today
1.08_-_RELIGION_AND_TEMPERAMENT
1.08_-_SOME_REFLECTIONS_ON_THE_SPIRITUAL_REPERCUSSIONS_OF_THE_ATOM_BOMB
1.08_-_Stead_and_the_Spirits
1.08_-_The_Change_of_Vision
1.08_-_The_Depths_of_the_Divine
1.08_-_The_Gods_of_the_Veda_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.08_-_THE_MASTERS_BIRTHDAY_CELEBRATION_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.08_-_THE_QUEEN'S_CROQUET_GROUND
1.08_-_The_Splitting_of_the_Human_Personality_during_Spiritual_Training
1.08_-_The_Supreme_Will
1.094_-_Understanding_the_Structure_of_Things
1.097_-_Sublimation_of_Object-Consciousness
1.099_-_The_Entry_of_the_Eternal_into_the_Individual
1.09_-_A_System_of_Vedic_Psychology
1.09_-_Concentration_-_Its_Spiritual_Uses
1.09_-_Equality_and_the_Annihilation_of_Ego
1.09_-_Fundamental_Questions_of_Psycho_therapy
1.09_-_SKIRMISHES_IN_A_WAY_WITH_THE_AGE
1.09_-_The_Greater_Self
1.1.01_-_Seeking_the_Divine
11.06_-_The_Mounting_Fire
1.107_-_The_Bestowal_of_a_Divine_Gift
1.10_-_Concentration_-_Its_Practice
1.10_-_Harmony
1.10_-_THE_FORMATION_OF_THE_NOOSPHERE
1.10_-_The_Revolutionary_Yogi
1.10_-_The_Secret_of_the_Veda
1.10_-_The_Three_Modes_of_Nature
1.10_-_The_Yoga_of_the_Intelligent_Will
1.10_-_THINGS_I_OWE_TO_THE_ANCIENTS
11.11_-_The_Ideal_Centre
11.14_-_Our_Finest_Hour
1.11_-_Correspondence_and_Interviews
1.11_-_FAITH_IN_MAN
1.11_-_The_Change_of_Power
1.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.12_-_Brute_Neighbors
1.1.2_-_Commentary
1.12_-_God_Departs
1.12_-_THE_FESTIVAL_AT_PNIHTI
1.12_-_The_Left-Hand_Path_-_The_Black_Brothers
1.12_-_The_Sociology_of_Superman
1.12_-_Truth_and_Knowledge
1.13_-_Conclusion_-_He_is_here
1.13_-_The_Divine_Maya
1.13_-_THE_HUMAN_REBOUND_OF_EVOLUTION_AND_ITS_CONSEQUENCES
1.13_-_THE_MASTER_AND_M.
1.14_-_Descendants_of_Prithu
1.14_-_On_the_clamorous,_yet_wicked_master-the_stomach.
1.14_-_The_Limits_of_Philosophical_Knowledge
1.14_-_The_Secret
1.14_-_The_Structure_and_Dynamics_of_the_Self
1.14_-_The_Victory_Over_Death
1.14_-_TURMOIL_OR_GENESIS?
1.15_-_Index
1.15_-_THE_DIRECTIONS_AND_CONDITIONS_OF_THE_FUTURE
1.15_-_The_Supramental_Consciousness
1.15_-_The_Suprarational_Good
1.16_-_Dianus_and_Diana
1.16_-_On_Concentration
1.16_-_The_Season_of_Truth
1.16_-_The_Suprarational_Ultimate_of_Life
1.17_-_DOES_MANKIND_MOVE_BIOLOGICALLY_UPON_ITSELF?
1.17_-_M._AT_DAKSHINEWAR
1.17_-_The_Transformation
1.18_-_The_Divine_Worker
1.18_-_THE_HEART_OF_THE_PROBLEM
1.18_-_The_Perils_of_the_Soul
1.19_-_ON_THE_PROBABLE_EXISTENCE_AHEAD_OF_US_OF_AN_ULTRA-HUMAN
1.19_-_Tabooed_Acts
1.19_-_The_Curve_of_the_Rational_Age
1.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_HIS_INJURED_ARM
1.19_-_The_Practice_of_Magical_Evocation
12.01_-_This_Great_Earth_Our_Mother
12.02_-_The_Stress_of_the_Spirit
1.2.07_-_Surrender
12.07_-_The_Double_Trinity
1.20_-_Death,_Desire_and_Incapacity
1.20_-_RULES_FOR_HOUSEHOLDERS_AND_MONKS
1.20_-_Tabooed_Persons
1.20_-_The_End_of_the_Curve_of_Reason
1.21_-_A_DAY_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.21_-_The_Fifth_Bolgia__Peculators._The_Elder_of_Santa_Zita._Malacoda_and_other_Devils.
1.21_-_The_Spiritual_Aim_and_Life
1.22_-_ADVICE_TO_AN_ACTOR
1.22__-_Dominion_over_different_provinces_of_creation_assigned_to_different_beings
1.22_-_EMOTIONALISM
1.22_-_THE_END_OF_THE_SPECIES
1.22_-_The_Necessity_of_the_Spiritual_Transformation
1.2.2_-_The_Place_of_Study_in_Sadhana
1.22_-_The_Problem_of_Life
1.23_-_Conditions_for_the_Coming_of_a_Spiritual_Age
1.240_-_1.300_Talks
1.240_-_Talks_2
1.24_-_Describes_how_vocal_prayer_may_be_practised_with_perfection_and_how_closely_allied_it_is_to_mental_prayer
1.24_-_PUNDIT_SHASHADHAR
1.24_-_The_Advent_and_Progress_of_the_Spiritual_Age
1.24_-_The_Killing_of_the_Divine_King
1.25_-_Fascinations,_Invisibility,_Levitation,_Transmutations,_Kinks_in_Time
1.25_-_Temporary_Kings
1.26_-_FESTIVAL_AT_ADHARS_HOUSE
1.27_-_AT_DAKSHINESWAR
1.27_-_On_holy_solitude_of_body_and_soul.
1.28_-_Supermind,_Mind_and_the_Overmind_Maya
1.300_-_1.400_Talks
1.3.01_-_Peace__The_Basis_of_the_Sadhana
1.34_-_Continues_the_same_subject._This_is_very_suitable_for_reading_after_the_reception_of_the_Most_Holy_Sacrament.
1.37_-_Death_-_Fear_-_Magical_Memory
1.400_-_1.450_Talks
14.02_-_Occult_Experiences
1.4.02_-_The_Divine_Force
1.4.03_-_The_Guru
14.08_-_A_Parable_of_Sea-Gulls
1.439
1.48_-_Morals_of_AL_-_Hard_to_Accept,_and_Why_nevertheless_we_Must_Concur
1.49_-_Ancient_Deities_of_Vegetation_as_Animals
1.52_-_Killing_the_Divine_Animal
1.53_-_The_Propitation_of_Wild_Animals_By_Hunters
1.55_-_The_Transference_of_Evil
1.56_-_The_Public_Expulsion_of_Evils
1.57_-_Public_Scapegoats
1.59_-_Geomancy
1.62_-_The_Elastic_Mind
1.62_-_The_Fire-Festivals_of_Europe
1.63_-_Fear,_a_Bad_Astral_Vision
1.63_-_The_Interpretation_of_the_Fire-Festivals
1.64_-_Magical_Power
17.02_-_Hymn_to_the_Sun
17.04_-_Hymn_to_the_Purusha
17.09_-_Victory_to_the_World_Master
1.71_-_Morality_2
1.72_-_Education
1.81_-_Method_of_Training
1.83_-_Epistola_Ultima
1914_04_19p
1914_05_26p
1929-05-12_-_Beings_of_vital_world_(vampires)_-_Money_power_and_vital_beings_-_Capacity_for_manifestation_of_will_-_Entry_into_vital_world_-_Body,_a_protection_-_Individuality_and_the_vital_world
1951-02-08_-_Unifying_the_being_-_ideas_of_good_and_bad_-_Miracles_-_determinism_-_Supreme_Will_-_Distinguishing_the_voice_of_the_Divine
1951-02-15_-_Dreams,_symbolic_-_true_repose_-_False_visions_-_Earth-memory_and_history
1951-03-29_-_The_Great_Vehicle_and_The_Little_Vehicle_-_Choosing_ones_family,_country_-_The_vital_being_distorted_-_atavism_-_Sincerity_-_changing_ones_character
1951-04-19_-_Demands_and_needs_-_human_nature_-_Abolishing_the_ego_-_Food-_tamas,_consecration_-_Changing_the_nature-_the_vital_and_the_mind_-_The_yoga_of_the_body__-_cellular_consciousness
1951-04-23_-_The_goal_and_the_way_-_Learning_how_to_sleep_-_relaxation_-_Adverse_forces-_test_of_sincerity_-_Attitude_to_suffering_and_death
1953-04-22
1953-05-06
1953-05-20
1953-05-27
1953-06-24
1953-07-29
1953-08-05
1953-10-28
1953-11-04
1954-06-16_-_Influences,_Divine_and_other_-_Adverse_forces_-_The_four_great_Asuras_-_Aspiration_arranges_circumstances_-_Wanting_only_the_Divine
1954-07-21_-_Mistakes_-_Success_-_Asuras_-_Mental_arrogance_-_Difficulty_turned_into_opportunity_-_Mothers_use_of_flowers_-_Conversion_of_men_governed_by_adverse_forces
1954-09-29_-_The_right_spirit_-_The_Divine_comes_first_-_Finding_the_Divine_-_Mistakes_-_Rejecting_impulses_-_Making_the_consciousness_vast_-_Firm_resolution
1955-06-29_-_The_true_vital_and_true_physical_-_Time_and_Space_-_The_psychics_memory_of_former_lives_-_The_psychic_organises_ones_life_-_The_psychics_knowledge_and_direction
1955-09-21_-_Literature_and_the_taste_for_forms_-_The_characters_of_The_Great_Secret_-_How_literature_helps_us_to_progress_-_Reading_to_learn_-_The_commercial_mentality_-_How_to_choose_ones_books_-_Learning_to_enrich_ones_possibilities_...
1955-11-02_-_The_first_movement_in_Yoga_-_Interiorisation,_finding_ones_soul_-_The_Vedic_Age_-_An_incident_about_Vivekananda_-_The_imaged_language_of_the_Vedas_-_The_Vedic_Rishis,_involutionary_beings_-_Involution_and_evolution
1956-04-11_-_Self-creator_-_Manifestation_of_Time_and_Space_-_Brahman-Maya_and_Ishwara-Shakti_-_Personal_and_Impersonal
1956-05-02_-_Threefold_union_-_Manifestation_of_the_Supramental_-_Profiting_from_the_Divine_-_Recognition_of_the_Supramental_Force_-_Ascent,_descent,_manifestation
1956-06-27_-_Birth,_entry_of_soul_into_body_-_Formation_of_the_supramental_world_-_Aspiration_for_progress_-_Bad_thoughts_-_Cerebral_filter_-_Progress_and_resistance
1957-07-31_-_Awakening_aspiration_in_the_body
1957-10-30_-_Double_movement_of_evolution_-_Disappearance_of_a_species
1957-12-04_-_The_method_of_The_Life_Divine_-_Problem_of_emergence_of_a_new_species
1958-04-23_-_Progress_and_bargaining
1958-06-25_-_Sadhana_in_the_body
1958-07-09_-_Faith_and_personal_effort
1958-07-16_-_Is_religion_a_necessity?
1958-09-10_-_Magic,_occultism,_physical_science
1960_07_19
1960_11_13?_-_50
1961_07_18
1969_10_06
1970_03_10
1.A_-_ANTHROPOLOGY,_THE_SOUL
1.anon_-_The_Epic_of_Gilgamesh_Tablet_XI_The_Story_of_the_Flood
1.dd_-_As_many_as_are_the_waves_of_the_sea
1f.lovecraft_-_At_the_Mountains_of_Madness
1f.lovecraft_-_Beyond_the_Wall_of_Sleep
1f.lovecraft_-_Collapsing_Cosmoses
1f.lovecraft_-_Dagon
1f.lovecraft_-_Discarded_Draft_of
1f.lovecraft_-_From_Beyond
1f.lovecraft_-_He
1f.lovecraft_-_Hypnos
1f.lovecraft_-_In_the_Vault
1f.lovecraft_-_In_the_Walls_of_Eryx
1f.lovecraft_-_Medusas_Coil
1f.lovecraft_-_Nyarlathotep
1f.lovecraft_-_Pickmans_Model
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Alchemist
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Beast_in_the_Cave
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Call_of_Cthulhu
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Case_of_Charles_Dexter_Ward
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Colour_out_of_Space
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Crawling_Chaos
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Diary_of_Alonzo_Typer
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dream-Quest_of_Unknown_Kadath
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dreams_in_the_Witch_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Dunwich_Horror
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Electric_Executioner
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Ghost-Eater
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Hoard_of_the_Wizard-Beast
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_at_Martins_Beach
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_at_Red_Hook
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Horror_in_the_Museum
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Hound
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Last_Test
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Loved_Dead
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Lurking_Fear
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Man_of_Stone
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Moon-Bog
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mound
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Mysterious_Ship
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Nameless_City
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Night_Ocean
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Rats_in_the_Walls
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_out_of_Time
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shadow_over_Innsmouth
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Shunned_House
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Silver_Key
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Strange_High_House_in_the_Mist
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Street
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Temple
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Thing_on_the_Doorstep
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Transition_of_Juan_Romero
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Trap
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Tree_on_the_Hill
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Unnamable
1f.lovecraft_-_The_Whisperer_in_Darkness
1f.lovecraft_-_Through_the_Gates_of_the_Silver_Key
1f.lovecraft_-_Two_Black_Bottles
1f.lovecraft_-_Under_the_Pyramids
1f.lovecraft_-_Winged_Death
1.fs_-_The_Eleusinian_Festival
1.fua_-_God_Speaks_to_David
1.ia_-_My_Heart_Has_Become_Able
1.jm_-_Upon_this_earth,_the_land_of_the_Victorious_Ones
1.jr_-_A_World_with_No_Boundaries_(Ghazal_363)
1.jr_-_By_the_God_who_was_in_pre-eternity_living_and_moving_and_omnipotent,_everlasting
1.jr_-_Did_I_Not_Say_To_You
1.jr_-_Love_Has_Nothing_To_Do_With_The_Five_Senses
1.kbr_-_Poem_9
1.mah_-_My_One_and_Only,_only_You_can_make_me
1.ms_-_Beyond_the_World
1.ms_-_No_End_Point
1.poe_-_Eureka_-_A_Prose_Poem
1.rb_-_Paracelsus_-_Part_III_-_Paracelsus
1.rmr_-_Lament_(Whom_will_you_cry_to,_heart?)
1.rmr_-_The_Sonnets_To_Orpheus_-_Book_2_-_VI
1.rt_-_Fireflies
1.rt_-_Hard_Times
1.rt_-_My_Pole_Star
1.srm_-_The_Marital_Garland_of_Letters
1.tm_-_When_in_the_soul_of_the_serene_disciple
1.tr_-_Slopes_Of_Mount_Kugami
1.whitman_-_A_Broadway_Pageant
1.whitman_-_A_Carol_Of_Harvest_For_1867
1.whitman_-_American_Feuillage
1.whitman_-_Among_The_Multitude
1.whitman_-_Laws_For_Creations
1.whitman_-_Myself_And_Mine
1.whitman_-_Not_Heat_Flames_Up_And_Consumes
1.whitman_-_On_The_Beach_At_Night
1.whitman_-_Poem_Of_Remembrance_For_A_Girl_Or_A_Boy
1.whitman_-_Song_of_Myself
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_Myself-_XXXIII
1.whitman_-_Song_Of_The_Redwood-Tree
1.whitman_-_States!
1.whitman_-_The_Sleepers
1.whitman_-_To_One_Shortly_To_Die
1.whitman_-_When_I_Read_The_Book
1.ww_-_Book_Third_[Residence_at_Cambridge]
20.01_-_Charyapada_-_Old_Bengali_Mystic_Poems
2.01_-_AT_THE_STAR_THEATRE
2.01_-_Indeterminates,_Cosmic_Determinations_and_the_Indeterminable
2.01_-_Mandala_One
2.01_-_On_Books
2.01_-_THE_ADVENT_OF_LIFE
2.01_-_THE_ARCANE_SUBSTANCE_AND_THE_POINT
2.01_-_The_Path
2.01_-_The_Road_of_Trials
2.01_-_The_Therapeutic_value_of_Abreaction
2.02_-_Atomic_Motions
2.02_-_Brahman,_Purusha,_Ishwara_-_Maya,_Prakriti,_Shakti
2.02_-_Habit_2__Begin_with_the_End_in_Mind
2.02_-_Surrender,_Self-Offering_and_Consecration
2.02_-_The_Bhakta.s_Renunciation_results_from_Love
2.02_-_THE_DURGA_PUJA_FESTIVAL
2.02_-_THE_EXPANSION_OF_LIFE
2.03_-_DEMETER
2.03_-_Karmayogin__A_Commentary_on_the_Isha_Upanishad
2.03_-_On_Medicine
2.03_-_THE_MASTER_IN_VARIOUS_MOODS
2.03_-_The_Naturalness_of_Bhakti-Yoga_and_its_Central_Secret
2.04_-_Positive_Aspects_of_the_Mother-Complex
2.04_-_The_Divine_and_the_Undivine
2.04_-_The_Living_Church_and_Christ-Omega
2.05_-_Apotheosis
2.05_-_Habit_3__Put_First_Things_First
2.05_-_The_Cosmic_Illusion;_Mind,_Dream_and_Hallucination
2.06_-_Reality_and_the_Cosmic_Illusion
2.06_-_The_Higher_Knowledge_and_the_Higher_Love_are_one_to_the_true_Lover
2.06_-_The_Wand
2.07_-_BANKIM_CHANDRA
2.07_-_The_Mother__Relations_with_Others
2.07_-_The_Release_from_Subjection_to_the_Body
2.08_-_God_in_Power_of_Becoming
2.08_-_On_Non-Violence
2.09_-_On_Sadhana
2.09_-_SEVEN_REASONS_WHY_A_SCIENTIST_BELIEVES_IN_GOD
2.09_-_The_Pantacle
2.09_-_The_Release_from_the_Ego
2.0_-_THE_ANTICHRIST
2.1.01_-_The_Central_Process_of_the_Sadhana
2.1.03_-_Man_and_Superman
2.10_-_Knowledge_by_Identity_and_Separative_Knowledge
2.10_-_THE_MASTER_AND_NARENDRA
2.1.1.04_-_Reading,_Yogic_Force_and_the_Development_of_Style
2.1.1_-_The_Nature_of_the_Vital
2.11_-_WITH_THE_DEVOTEES_IN_CALCUTTA
2.13_-_Exclusive_Concentration_of_Consciousness-Force_and_the_Ignorance
2.1.4.2_-_Teaching
2.14_-_AT_RAMS_HOUSE
2.1.4_-_The_Lower_Vital_Being
2.14_-_The_Origin_and_Remedy_of_Falsehood,_Error,_Wrong_and_Evil
2.14_-_The_Unpacking_of_God
2.15_-_CAR_FESTIVAL_AT_BALARMS_HOUSE
2.15_-_Reality_and_the_Integral_Knowledge
2.16_-_The_Integral_Knowledge_and_the_Aim_of_Life;_Four_Theories_of_Existence
2.16_-_The_Magick_Fire
2.17_-_THE_MASTER_ON_HIMSELF_AND_HIS_EXPERIENCES
2.17_-_The_Progress_to_Knowledge_-_God,_Man_and_Nature
2.18_-_January_1939
2.18_-_ON_GREAT_EVENTS
2.18_-_SRI_RAMAKRISHNA_AT_SYAMPUKUR
2.18_-_The_Evolutionary_Process_-_Ascent_and_Integration
2.18_-_The_Soul_and_Its_Liberation
2.19_-_THE_MASTER_AND_DR._SARKAR
2.2.01_-_Work_and_Yoga
2.2.02_-_Becoming_Conscious_in_Work
2.2.02_-_Consciousness_and_the_Inconscient
2.20_-_The_Lower_Triple_Purusha
2.21_-_The_Order_of_the_Worlds
2.21_-_Towards_the_Supreme_Secret
2.22_-_Rebirth_and_Other_Worlds;_Karma,_the_Soul_and_Immortality
2.22_-_The_Supreme_Secret
2.2.3_-_Depression_and_Despondency
2.23_-_The_Core_of_the_Gita.s_Meaning
2.24_-_Back_to_Back__Face_to_Face__and_The_Process_of_Sawing_Through
2.2.4_-_Sentimentalism,_Sensitiveness,_Instability,_Laxity
2.24_-_The_Evolution_of_the_Spiritual_Man
2.25_-_The_Triple_Transformation
2.26_-_The_Ascent_towards_Supermind
2.27_-_Hathayoga
2.27_-_The_Gnostic_Being
2.28_-_The_Divine_Life
2.3.01_-_Concentration_and_Meditation
2.3.02_-_Opening,_Sincerity_and_the_Mother's_Grace
2.3.04_-_The_Mother's_Force
2.3.06_-_The_Mind
2.3.08_-_The_Mother's_Help_in_Difficulties
2.3.1.01_-_Three_Essentials_for_Writing_Poetry
23.10_-_Observations_II
23.12_-_A_Note_On_The_Mother_of_Dreams
2.3.2_-_Desire
2.4.02_-_Bhakti,_Devotion,_Worship
24.05_-_Vision_of_Dante
2.4.1_-_Human_Relations_and_the_Spiritual_Life
2.4.2_-_Interactions_with_Others_and_the_Practice_of_Yoga
29.03_-_In_Her_Company
29.06_-_There_is_also_another,_similar_or_parallel_story_in_the_Veda_about_the_God_Agni,_about_the_disappearance_of_this
2_-_Other_Hymns_to_Agni
3.00.2_-_Introduction
3.00_-_Introduction
30.11_-_Modern_Poetry
3.01_-_Natural_Morality
3.01_-_THE_BIRTH_OF_THOUGHT
3.01_-_The_Mercurial_Fountain
3.01_-_The_Principles_of_Ritual
3.01_-_The_Soul_World
3.02_-_Aridity_in_Prayer
3.02_-_King_and_Queen
3.02_-_Mysticism
3.02_-_The_Soul_in_the_Soul_World_after_Death
3.03_-_The_Consummation_of_Mysticism
3.03_-_The_Godward_Emotions
3.03_-_THE_MODERN_EARTH
3.03_-_The_Naked_Truth
3.04_-_On_Thought_-_III
3.04_-_The_Spirit_in_Spirit-Land_after_Death
3.05_-_SAL
3.05_-_The_Divine_Personality
3.05_-_The_Formula_of_I.A.O.
3.06_-_The_Formula_of_The_Neophyte
3.07_-_The_Ascent_of_the_Soul
3.07_-_The_Formula_of_the_Holy_Grail
31.01_-_The_Heart_of_Bengal
31.02_-_The_Mother-_Worship_of_the_Bengalis
31.03_-_The_Trinity_of_Bengal
31.04_-_Sri_Ramakrishna
3.10_-_Of_the_Gestures
31.10_-_East_and_West
3.11_-_Spells
3.1.2_-_Levels_of_the_Physical_Being
3.14_-_Of_the_Consecrations
3.18_-_Of_Clairvoyance_and_the_Body_of_Light
31_Hymns_to_the_Star_Goddess
3.2.03_-_Conservation_and_Progress
3.2.04_-_Sankhya_and_Yoga
3.2.04_-_The_Conservative_Mind_and_Eastern_Progress
32.04_-_The_Human_Body
3.2.08_-_Bhakti_Yoga_and_Vaishnavism
32.11_-_Life_and_Self-Control_(A_Letter)
3.2.1_-_Food
3.2.3_-_Dreams
3.2.4_-_Sex
33.09_-_Shyampukur
33.11_-_Pondicherry_II
33.12_-_Pondicherry_Cyclone
33.15_-_My_Athletics
33.16_-_Soviet_Gymnasts
33.17_-_Two_Great_Wars
3.3.1_-_Illness_and_Health
3.3.2_-_Doctors_and_Medicines
3.4.03_-_Materialism
34.09_-_Hymn_to_the_Pillar
3-5_Full_Circle
3.6.01_-_Heraclitus
37.01_-_Yama_-_Nachiketa_(Katha_Upanishad)
37.02_-_The_Story_of_Jabala-Satyakama
37.03_-_Satyakama_And_Upakoshala
37.07_-_Ushasti_Chakrayana_(Chhandogya_Upanishad)
3.7.1.08_-_Karma
3.7.1.11_-_Rebirth_and_Karma
3.7.2.01_-_The_Foundation
3.7.2.02_-_The_Terrestial_Law
3.7.2.03_-_Mind_Nature_and_Law_of_Karma
3.7.2.04_-_The_Higher_Lines_of_Karma
38.01_-_Asceticism_and_Renunciation
3.8.1.04_-_Different_Methods_of_Writing
3_-_Commentaries_and_Annotated_Translations
4.01_-_THE_COLLECTIVE_ISSUE
4.01_-_The_Presence_of_God_in_the_World
4.01_-_The_Principle_of_the_Integral_Yoga
4.02_-_Autobiographical_Evidence
4.02_-_BEYOND_THE_COLLECTIVE_-_THE_HYPER-PERSONAL
4.03_-_CONVERSATION_WITH_THE_KINGS
4.03_-_Prayer_to_the_Ever-greater_Christ
4.03_-_The_Meaning_of_Human_Endeavor
4.03_-_The_Senses_And_Mental_Pictures
4.03_-_THE_ULTIMATE_EARTH
4.04_-_Conclusion
4.04_-_The_Perfection_of_the_Mental_Being
4.04_-_THE_REGENERATION_OF_THE_KING
4.05_-_The_Instruments_of_the_Spirit
4.06_-_Purification-the_Lower_Mentality
4.07_-_Purification-Intelligence_and_Will
4.09_-_The_Liberation_of_the_Nature
4.0_-_The_Path_of_Knowledge
4.1.01_-_The_Intellect_and_Yoga
4.10_-_The_Elements_of_Perfection
4.11_-_The_Perfection_of_Equality
4.13_-_The_Action_of_Equality
4.15_-_Soul-Force_and_the_Fourfold_Personality
4.16_-_The_Divine_Shakti
4.17_-_The_Action_of_the_Divine_Shakti
4.19_-_The_Nature_of_the_supermind
4.2.1_-_The_Right_Attitude_towards_Difficulties
4.26_-_The_Supramental_Time_Consciousness
4.4.5.03_-_Descent_and_Other_Experiences
5.01_-_EPILOGUE
5.01_-_Message
5.02_-_Perfection_of_the_Body
5.03_-_The_Divine_Body
5.04_-_Formation_Of_The_World
5.04_-_Supermind_and_the_Life_Divine
5.04_-_Three_Dreams
5.05_-_Supermind_and_Humanity
5.06_-_THE_TRANSFORMATION
5.4.01_-_Notes_on_Root-Sounds
5_-_The_Phenomenology_of_the_Spirit_in_Fairytales
6.01_-_THE_ALCHEMICAL_VIEW_OF_THE_UNION_OF_OPPOSITES
6.02_-_Great_Meteorological_Phenomena,_Etc
6.03_-_Extraordinary_And_Paradoxical_Telluric_Phenomena
6.0_-_Conscious,_Unconscious,_and_Individuation
7.01_-_The_Soul_(the_Psychic)
7_-_Yoga_of_Sri_Aurobindo
Aeneid
Appendix_4_-_Priest_Spells
Big_Mind_(non-dual)
Big_Mind_(ten_perfections)
Blazing_P1_-_Preconventional_consciousness
Blazing_P2_-_Map_the_Stages_of_Conventional_Consciousness
Blazing_P3_-_Explore_the_Stages_of_Postconventional_Consciousness
BOOK_II._-_A_review_of_the_calamities_suffered_by_the_Romans_before_the_time_of_Christ,_showing_that_their_gods_had_plunged_them_into_corruption_and_vice
BOOK_II._--_PART_I._ANTHROPOGENESIS.
BOOK_II._--_PART_III._ADDENDA._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_II._--_PART_II._THE_ARCHAIC_SYMBOLISM_OF_THE_WORLD-RELIGIONS
BOOK_I._--_PART_I._COSMIC_EVOLUTION
BOOK_I._--_PART_III._SCIENCE_AND_THE_SECRET_DOCTRINE_CONTRASTED
BOOK_I._--_PART_II._THE_EVOLUTION_OF_SYMBOLISM_IN_ITS_APPROXIMATE_ORDER
Book_of_Imaginary_Beings_(text)
BOOK_VII._-_Of_the_select_gods_of_the_civil_theology,_and_that_eternal_life_is_not_obtained_by_worshipping_them
BOOK_V._-_Of_fate,_freewill,_and_God's_prescience,_and_of_the_source_of_the_virtues_of_the_ancient_Romans
BOOK_XI._-_Augustine_passes_to_the_second_part_of_the_work,_in_which_the_origin,_progress,_and_destinies_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_are_discussed.Speculations_regarding_the_creation_of_the_world
BOOK_X._-_Porphyrys_doctrine_of_redemption
BOOK_XVIII._-_A_parallel_history_of_the_earthly_and_heavenly_cities_from_the_time_of_Abraham_to_the_end_of_the_world
BOOK_XVII._-_The_history_of_the_city_of_God_from_the_times_of_the_prophets_to_Christ
BOOK_XXII._-_Of_the_eternal_happiness_of_the_saints,_the_resurrection_of_the_body,_and_the_miracles_of_the_early_Church
BS_1_-_Introduction_to_the_Idea_of_God
Conversations_with_Sri_Aurobindo
COSA_-_BOOK_XIII
Cratylus
Diamond_Sutra_1
DS2
DS4
ENNEAD_01.07_-_Of_the_First_Good,_and_of_the_Other_Goods.
ENNEAD_02.01_-_Of_the_Heaven.
ENNEAD_02.03_-_Whether_Astrology_is_of_any_Value.
ENNEAD_03.01_-_Concerning_Fate.
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PRIMARY CLASS

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SIMILAR TITLES
direction

DEFINITIONS


TERMS STARTING WITH

direction ::: 1. A line of thought or action or a tendency or inclination. 2. A purpose or orientation toward a goal that serves to guide or motivate; focus. directions.

directional coupler ::: (communications) (tap) A passive device used in cable systems to divide and combine radio frequency signals. A directional coupler has at least three and is isolated from the tap port. Some devices provide more than one tap output line (multi-taps). (1995-12-23)

directional coupler "communications" (tap) A {passive} device used in {cable} systems to divide and combine {radio frequency} signals. A directional coupler has at least three ports: line in, line out, and the tap. The signal passes between line in and line out ports with loss referred to as the {insertion loss}. A small portion of the signal power applied to the line in port passes to the tap port. A signal applied to the tap port is passed to the line in port less the tap attenuation value. The tap signals are isolated from the line out port to prevent reflections. A signal applied to the line out port passes to the line in port and is isolated from the tap port. Some devices provide more than one tap output line (multi-taps). (1995-12-23)

directional hypothesis: states which of the two condition means will be larger, most often used, one tailed T-test.

direction angles: The direction of a vector (line) as represented by the angle it makes with the positive direction of the coordinate axes in a cartesina coordinate system.

direction cosines: The cosine values of the direction angles used for the same purposes.

direction ::: n. --> The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the


direction of the universe. [Rf. Aude, Chaldean

direction ratios: The ratio of the direction angles, representing the direction of a vector with 2 numbers as opposed to 3 in the cases of the direction angles or the direction cosines.


TERMS ANYWHERE

1. Not guided in a particular path or direction; left to take one"s own course or way. 2. Fig. Of action, conduct, etc.; Undirected, uncontrolled.

1. To or towards a higher or loftier position, point, place, or plane; having a vertical or ascensional course or direction; taking place or inclined upwards; ascending. 2. Situated or lying aloft or above; higher in place or position; lofty. upwards.

about ::: prep. --> Around; all round; on every side of.
In the immediate neighborhood of; in contiguity or proximity to; near, as to place; by or on (one&


across ::: n. --> From side to side; athwart; crosswise, or in a direction opposed to the length; quite over; as, a bridge laid across a river. ::: adv. --> From side to side; crosswise; as, with arms folded across.
Obliquely; athwart; amiss; awry.


administration ::: n. --> The act of administering; government of public affairs; the service rendered, or duties assumed, in conducting affairs; the conducting of any office or employment; direction; management.
The executive part of government; the persons collectively who are intrusted with the execution of laws and the superintendence of public affairs; the chief magistrate and his cabinet or council; or the council, or ministry, alone, as in Great Britain.


adverse ::: a. --> Acting against, or in a contrary direction; opposed; contrary; opposite; conflicting; as, adverse winds; an adverse party; a spirit adverse to distinctions of caste.
Opposite.
In hostile opposition to; unfavorable; unpropitious; contrary to one&


aeolotropic ::: a. --> Exhibiting differences of quality or property in different directions; not isotropic.

aeolotropy ::: n. --> Difference of quality or property in different directions.

against ::: prep. --> Abreast; opposite to; facing; towards; as, against the mouth of a river; -- in this sense often preceded by over.
From an opposite direction so as to strike or come in contact with; in contact with; upon; as, hail beats against the roof.
In opposition to, whether the opposition is of sentiment or of action; on the other side; counter to; in contrariety to; hence, adverse to; as, against reason; against law; to run a race against time.


::: "All energies put into activity — thought, speech, feeling, act — go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or another, and the nature and its actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself sooner or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their effects. It is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed will are also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reactions.” Letters on Yoga*

“All energies put into activity—thought, speech, feeling, act—go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or another, and the nature and its actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself sooner or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their effects. It is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed will are also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reactions.” Letters on Yoga

al segno ::: --> A direction for the performer to return and recommence from the sign /.

anemograph ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring and recording the direction and force of the wind.

anemography ::: n. --> A description of the winds.
The art of recording the direction and force of the wind, as by means of an anemograph.


anemoscope ::: n. --> An instrument which shows the direction of the wind; a wind vane; a weathercock; -- usually applied to a contrivance consisting of a vane above, connected in the building with a dial or index with pointers to show the changes of the wind.

angle ::: n. --> The inclosed space near the point where two lines meet; a corner; a nook.
The figure made by. two lines which meet.
The difference of direction of two lines. In the lines meet, the point of meeting is the vertex of the angle.
A projecting or sharp corner; an angular fragment.
A name given to four of the twelve astrological "houses."
A fishhook; tackle for catching fish, consisting of a line,


anisotropic ::: a. --> Not isotropic; having different properties in different directions; thus, crystals of the isometric system are optically isotropic, but all other crystals are anisotropic.

anticlastic ::: a. --> Having to opposite curvatures, that is, curved longitudinally in one direction and transversely in the opposite direction, as the surface of a saddle.

anticlinal ::: a. --> Inclining or dipping in opposite directions. See Synclinal. ::: n. --> The crest or line in which strata slope or dip in opposite directions.

anticyclone ::: n. --> A movement of the atmosphere opposite in character, as regards direction of the wind and distribution of barometric pressure, to that of a cyclone.

antidromous ::: a. --> Changing the direction in the spiral sequence of leaves on a stem.

antiparallel ::: a. --> Running in a contrary direction.

antiscii ::: n. pl. --> The inhabitants of the earth, living on different sides of the equator, whose shadows at noon are cast in opposite directions.

anti-trade ::: n. --> A tropical wind blowing steadily in a direction opposite to the trade wind.

antrorse ::: a. --> Forward or upward in direction.

arch ::: n. --> Any part of a curved line.
Usually a curved member made up of separate wedge-shaped solids, with the joints between them disposed in the direction of the radii of the curve; used to support the wall or other weight above an opening. In this sense arches are segmental, round (i. e., semicircular), or pointed.
A flat arch is a member constructed of stones cut into wedges or other shapes so as to support each other without rising in a curve.


aside ::: 1. On or to one"s side; to or at a short distance apart; away from some position or direction. 2. To or toward the side. 3. Out of one"s thoughts or mind. 4. In reserve; in a separate place, as for safekeeping; apart; away.

aside ::: adv. --> On, or to, one side; out of a straight line, course, or direction; at a little distance from the rest; out of the way; apart.
Out of one&


aslant ::: adv. & a. --> Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. ::: prep. --> In a slanting direction over; athwart.

aslope ::: adv. & a. --> Slopingly; aslant; declining from an upright direction; sloping.

aspect ::: n. --> The act of looking; vision; gaze; glance.
Look, or particular appearance of the face; countenance; mien; air.
Appearance to the eye or the mind; look; view.
Position or situation with regard to seeing; that position which enables one to look in a particular direction; position in relation to the points of the compass; as, a house has a southern aspect, that is, a position which faces the south.


assai ::: --> A direction equivalent to very; as, adagio assai, very slow.

astatic ::: a. --> Having little or no tendency to take a fixed or definite position or direction: thus, a suspended magnetic needle, when rendered astatic, loses its polarity, or tendency to point in a given direction.

astray ::: 1. Away from the correct path or direction. 2. Away from the right or good, as in thought or behaviour; straying to or into wrong or evil ways.

athwart ::: prep. --> Across; from side to side of.
Across the direction or course of; as, a fleet standing athwart our course. ::: adv. --> Across, especially in an oblique direction; sidewise; obliquely.


at ::: prep. --> Primarily, this word expresses the relations of presence, nearness in place or time, or direction toward; as, at the ninth hour; at the house; to aim at a mark. It is less definite than in or on; at the house may be in or near the house. From this original import are derived all the various uses of at.
A relation of proximity to, or of presence in or on, something; as, at the door; at your shop; at home; at school; at hand; at sea and on land.


attacca ::: --> Attack at once; -- a direction at the end of a movement to show that the next is to follow immediately, without any pause.

aversely ::: adv. --> Backward; in a backward direction; as, emitted aversely.
With repugnance or aversion; unwillingly.


away ::: adv. --> From a place; hence.
Absent; gone; at a distance; as, the master is away from home.
Aside; off; in another direction.
From a state or condition of being; out of existence.
By ellipsis of the verb, equivalent to an imperative: Go or come away; begone; take away.
On; in continuance; without intermission or delay; as, sing


aweather ::: adv. --> On the weather side, or toward the wind; in the direction from which the wind blows; -- opposed to alee; as, helm aweather!

awry ::: adv. & a. --> Turned or twisted toward one side; not in a straight or true direction, or position; out of the right course; distorted; obliquely; asquint; with oblique vision; as, to glance awry.
Aside from the line of truth, or right reason; unreasonable or unreasonably; perverse or perversely.


babel ::: “The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other’s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle

babel ::: "The reference is to the mythological story of the construction of the Tower of Babel, which appears to be an attempt to explain the diversity of human languages. According to Genesis, the Babylonians wanted to make a name for themselves by building a mighty city and tower ‘with its top in the heavens". God disrupted the work by so confusing the language of the workers that they could no longer understand one another. The tower was never completed and the people were dispersed over the face of the earth.” (Encyclopaedia Britannica) Glossary and Index of Proper Names in Sri Aurobindo"s Works     Sri Aurobindo: "The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other"s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle

basseting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Basset ::: n. --> The upward direction of a vein in a mine; the emergence of a stratum at the surface.

direction ::: 1. A line of thought or action or a tendency or inclination. 2. A purpose or orientation toward a goal that serves to guide or motivate; focus. directions.

direction ::: n. --> The act of directing, of aiming, regulating, guiding, or ordering; guidance; management; superintendence; administration; as, the direction o/ public affairs or of a bank.
That which is imposed by directing; a guiding or authoritative instruction; prescription; order; command; as, he grave directions to the servants.
The name and residence of a person to whom any thing is sent, written upon the thing sent; superscription; address; as, the


bear ::: 1. To carry. Also fig. 2. To hold up, support. Also fig. 3. To have a tolerance for; endure something with tolerance and patience. 5. To possess, as a quality or characteristic; have in or on. 6. To tend in a course or direction; move; go. 7. To render; afford; give. 8. To produce by natural growth. bears, bore, borne bearing.

bell crank ::: --> A lever whose two arms form a right angle, or nearly a right angle, having its fulcrum at the apex of the angle. It is used in bell pulls and in changing the direction of bell wires at angles of rooms, etc., and also in machinery.

bend ::: 1. To assume a curved, crooked, or angular form or direction, esp. to bend the body; stoop. 2. Fig. To bow, esp. in reverence. 3. To turn or incline in a particular direction; be directed. bends.

beyond ::: prep. --> On the further side of; in the same direction as, and further on or away than.
At a place or time not yet reached; before.
Past, out of the reach or sphere of; further than; greater than; as, the patient was beyond medical aid; beyond one&


biacuminate ::: a. --> Having points in two directions.

blockhouse ::: n. --> An edifice or structure of heavy timbers or logs for military defense, having its sides loopholed for musketry, and often an upper story projecting over the lower, or so placed upon it as to have its sides make an angle wit the sides of the lower story, thus enabling the defenders to fire downward, and in all directions; -- formerly much used in America and Germany.
A house of squared logs.


blundered ::: moved or acted blindly, stupidly, or without direction or steady guidance.

boustrophedon ::: n. --> An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

brace ::: n. --> That which holds anything tightly or supports it firmly; a bandage or a prop.
A cord, ligament, or rod, for producing or maintaining tension, as a cord on the side of a drum.
The state of being braced or tight; tension.
A piece of material used to transmit, or change the direction of, weight or pressure; any one of the pieces, in a frame or truss, which divide the structure into triangular parts. It may act as


brancher ::: n. --> That which shoots forth branches; one who shows growth in various directions.
A young hawk when it begins to leave the nest and take to the branches.


brandish ::: n. --> To move or wave, as a weapon; to raise and move in various directions; to shake or flourish.
To play with; to flourish; as, to brandish syllogisms.
A flourish, as with a weapon, whip, etc.


breadthwise ::: ads. --> In the direction of the breadth.

brisure ::: n. --> Any part of a rampart or parapet which deviates from the general direction.
A mark of cadency or difference.


broadcast ::: n. --> A casting or throwing seed in all directions, as from the hand in sowing. ::: a. --> Cast or dispersed in all directions, as seed from the hand in sowing; widely diffused.
Scattering in all directions (as a method of sowing); --


bureau ::: n. --> Originally, a desk or writing table with drawers for papers.
The place where such a bureau is used; an office where business requiring writing is transacted.
Hence: A department of public business requiring a force of clerks; the body of officials in a department who labor under the direction of a chief.
A chest of drawers for clothes, especially when made as an


canalise ::: to divert into certain channels; give a certain direction to or provide a certain outlet for, in order to control or regulate. canalises, canalised.

cant ::: n. --> A corner; angle; niche.
An outer or external angle.
An inclination from a horizontal or vertical line; a slope or bevel; a titl.
A sudden thrust, push, kick, or other impulse, producing a bias or change of direction; also, the bias or turn so give; as, to give a ball a cant.
A segment forming a side piece in the head of a cask.


cast ::: v. 1. To throw with force; hurl. 2. To form (liquid metal, for example) into a particular shape by pouring into a mould. Also fig. 3. To cause to fall upon something or in a certain direction; send forth. 4. To throw on the ground, as in wrestling. 5. To put or place, esp. hastily or forcibly. 6. To direct (the eye, a glance, etc.) 7. To throw (something) forth or off. 8. To bestow; confer. casts, casting.

chamberlain ::: n. --> An officer or servant who has charge of a chamber or chambers.
An upper servant of an inn.
An officer having the direction and management of the private chambers of a nobleman or monarch; hence, in Europe, one of the high officers of a court.
A treasurer or receiver of public money; as, the chamberlain of London, of North Wales, etc.


circumnutation ::: n. --> The successive bowing or bending in different directions of the growing tip of the stems of many plants, especially seen in climbing plants.

clash ::: v. i. --> To make a noise by striking against something; to dash noisily together.
To meet in opposition; to act in a contrary direction; to come onto collision; to interfere. ::: v. t. --> To strike noisily against or together.


cleavage ::: n. --> The act of cleaving or splitting.
The quality possessed by many crystallized substances of splitting readily in one or more definite directions, in which the cohesive attraction is a minimum, affording more or less smooth surfaces; the direction of the dividing plane; a fragment obtained by cleaving, as of a diamond. See Parting.
Division into laminae, like slate, with the lamination not necessarily parallel to the plane of deposition; -- usually


clinodiagonal ::: n. --> That diagonal or lateral axis in a monoclinic crystal which makes an oblique angle with the vertical axis. See Crystallization. ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or the direction of, the clinodiagonal.

closehauled ::: a. --> Under way and moving as nearly as possible toward the direction from which the wind blows; -- said of a sailing vessel.

collimate ::: v. t. --> To render parallel to a certain line or direction; to bring into the same line, as the axes of telescopes, etc.; to render parallel, as rays of light.

columns ::: long, narrow formations of troops in which there are more members in line in the direction of movement than at right angles to the direction.—(distinguished from line).

commissioned ::: issued with an authoritative order, charge, or direction.

commutator ::: n. --> A piece of apparatus used for reversing the direction of an electrical current; an attachment to certain electrical machines, by means of which alternating currents are made to be continuous or to have the same direction.

compass ::: an instrument for determining directions, as by means of a freely rotating magnetized needle that indicates magnetic north.

contact ::: n. --> A close union or junction of bodies; a touching or meeting.
The property of two curves, or surfaces, which meet, and at the point of meeting have a common direction.
The plane between two adjacent bodies of dissimilar rock.


contrarotation ::: n. --> Circular motion in a direction contrary to some other circular motion.

contrary ::: a. --> Opposite; in an opposite direction; in opposition; adverse; as, contrary winds.
Opposed; contradictory; repugnant; inconsistent.
Given to opposition; perverse; forward; wayward; as, a contrary disposition; a contrary child.
Affirming the opposite; so opposed as to destroy each other; as, contrary propositions.


cookbook ::: n. --> A book of directions and receipts for cooking; a cookery book.

Correlation ::: The degree to which two or more variables a related to each other. A correlation refers to the direction that the variables move and does not necessarily represent cause and effect. (Example: height and weight are correlated. As one increases, the other tends to increase as well)

costeaning ::: n. --> The process by which miners seek to discover metallic lodes. It consist in sinking small pits through the superficial deposits to the solid rock, and then driving from one pit to another across the direction of the vein, in such manner as to cross all the veins between the two pits.

counter ::: adv. --> A prefix meaning contrary, opposite, in opposition; as, counteract, counterbalance, countercheck. See Counter, adv. & a.
Contrary; in opposition; in an opposite direction; contrariwise; -- used chiefly with run or go.
In the wrong way; contrary to the right course; as, a hound that runs counter.
At or against the front or face.
The after part of a vessel&


counterbrace ::: v. t. --> To brace in opposite directions; as, to counterbrace the yards, i. e., to brace the head yards one way and the after yards another.
To brace in such a way that opposite strains are resisted; to apply counter braces to.


counterbuff ::: v. t. --> To strike or drive back or in an opposite direction; to stop by a blow or impulse in front. ::: n. --> A blow in an opposite direction; a stroke that stops motion or cause a recoil.

counter-couchant ::: a. --> Lying down, with their heads in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coat of arms.

counter-courant ::: a. --> Running in opposite directions; -- said of animals borne in a coast of arms.

countercurrent ::: a. --> Running in an opposite direction. ::: n. --> A current running in an opposite direction to the main current.

countermarch ::: v. i. --> To march back, or to march in reversed order. ::: n. --> A marching back; retrocession.
An evolution by which a body of troops change front or reverse the direction of march while retaining the same men in the front rank; also, a movement by which the rear rank becomes the front


countermove ::: v. t. & i. --> To move in a contrary direction to. ::: --> Alt. of Countermovement

counterpassant ::: a. --> Passant in opposite directions; -- said of two animals.

countersway ::: n. --> A swaying in a contrary direction; an opposing influence.

countertrippant ::: a. --> Trippant in opposite directions. See Trippant.

counterwheel ::: v. t. --> To cause to wheel or turn in an opposite direction.

course ::: 1. A direction or route taken or to be taken. 2. The path, route, or channel along which anything moves. 3. Advance or progression in a particular direction; forward or onward movement. 4. The continuous passage or progress through time or a succession of stages. chariot-course.

course ::: n. --> The act of moving from one point to another; progress; passage.
The ground or path traversed; track; way.
Motion, considered as to its general or resultant direction or to its goal; line progress or advance.
Progress from point to point without change of direction; any part of a progress from one place to another, which is in a straight line, or on one direction; as, a ship in a long voyage makes


crescendo ::: a. & adv. --> With a constantly increasing volume of voice; with gradually increasing strength and fullness of tone; -- a direction for the performance of music, indicated by the mark, or by writing the word on the score. ::: n. --> A gradual increase in the strength and fullness of tone

crier ::: n. --> One who cries; one who makes proclamation.
an officer who proclaims the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier.


crossflow ::: v. i. --> To flow across, or in a contrary direction.

cross-springer ::: n. --> One of the ribs in a groined arch, springing from the corners in a diagonal direction. [See Illustr. of Groined vault.]

cruise ::: n. --> See Cruse, a small bottle.
A voyage made in various directions, as of an armed vessel, for the protection of other vessels, or in search of an enemy; a sailing to and fro, as for exploration or for pleasure. ::: v. i. --> To sail back and forth on the ocean; to sail, as for the


current ::: 1. (esp. of water or air) A steady usually natural flow in a particular direction. 2. A flow of electric charge through a conductor. current"s, currents.

dacapo ::: --> From the beginning; a direction to return to, and end with, the first strain; -- indicated by the letters D. C. Also, the strain so repeated.

dal segno ::: --> A direction to go back to the sign / and repeat from thence to the close. See Segno.

damask ::: n. --> Damask silk; silk woven with an elaborate pattern of flowers and the like.
Linen so woven that a pattern in produced by the different directions of the thread, without contrast of color.
A heavy woolen or worsted stuff with a pattern woven in the same way as the linen damask; -- made for furniture covering and hangings.
Damask or Damascus steel; also, the peculiar markings or


dasyalipsa ::: the urge towards service (dasya); "the desire to serve", dasyalipsa which "in the perfect man becomes the desire to serve God-in-all", an attribute of the sūdra: "the abnegation that is ready to bear the yoke of the Master and make the life a free servitude to Him and under his direction to the claim and need of his creatures".

decline ::: v. i. --> To bend, or lean downward; to take a downward direction; to bend over or hang down, as from weakness, weariness, despondency, etc.; to condescend.
To tend or draw towards a close, decay, or extinction; to tend to a less perfect state; to become diminished or impaired; to fail; to sink; to diminish; to lessen; as, the day declines; virtue declines; religion declines; business declines.
To turn or bend aside; to deviate; to stray; to


decrescendo ::: a. & adv. --> With decreasing volume of sound; -- a direction to performers, either written upon the staff (abbreviated Dec., or Decresc.), or indicated by the sign.

defilading ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Defilade ::: n. --> The art or act of determining the directions and heights of the lines of rampart with reference to the protection of the interior from exposure to an enemy&

deflect ::: v. t. --> To cause to turn aside; to bend; as, rays of light are often deflected. ::: v. i. --> To turn aside; to deviate from a right or a horizontal line, or from a proper position, course or direction; to swerve.

dele ::: imperative sing. --> Erase; remove; -- a direction to cancel something which has been put in type; usually expressed by a peculiar form of d, thus: /. ::: v. t. --> To erase; to cancel; to delete; to mark for omission.
To deal; to divide; to distribute.


dependence ::: n. --> The act or state of depending; state of being dependent; a hanging down or from; suspension from a support.
The state of being influenced and determined by something; subjection (as of an effect to its cause).
Mutu/// /onnection and support; concatenation; systematic ///er relation.
Subjection to the direction or disposal of another; inability to help or provide for one&


designation ::: n. --> The act of designating; a pointing out or showing; indication.
Selection and appointment for a purpose; allotment; direction.
That which designates; a distinguishing mark or name; distinctive title; appellation.
Use or application; import; intention; signification, as of a word or phrase.


determination ::: n. --> The act of determining, or the state of being determined.
Bringing to an end; termination; limit.
Direction or tendency to a certain end; impulsion.
The quality of mind which reaches definite conclusions; decision of character; resoluteness.
The state of decision; a judicial decision, or ending of controversy.


determination (‘s) ::: fixed direction or tendency towards some object or end.

diageotropism ::: n. --> The tendency of organs (as roots) of plants to assume a position oblique or transverse to a direction towards the center of the earth.

diagonally ::: adv. --> In a diagonal direction.

dichroism ::: n. --> The property of presenting different colors by transmitted light, when viewed in two different directions, the colors being unlike in the direction of unlike or unequal axes.

dichroite ::: n. --> Iolite; -- so called from its presenting two different colors when viewed in two different directions. See Iolite.

dictator ::: n. --> One who dictates; one who prescribes rules and maxims authoritatively for the direction of others.
One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power.


diffuse ::: v. t. --> To pour out and cause to spread, as a fluid; to cause to flow on all sides; to send out, or extend, in all directions; to spread; to circulate; to disseminate; to scatter; as to diffuse information. ::: v. i. --> To pass by spreading every way, to diffuse itself.

diffusible ::: a. --> Capable of flowing or spreading in all directions; that may be diffused.
Capable of passing through animal membranes by osmosis.


dilate ::: v. t. --> To expand; to distend; to enlarge or extend in all directions; to swell; -- opposed to contract; as, the air dilates the lungs; air is dilated by increase of heat.
To enlarge upon; to relate at large; to tell copiously or diffusely. ::: v. i.


dimension ::: 1. A property of space; extension in a given direction; extension in time. 2. Measurement in length, width and thickness; scope, importance. dimensions.

diorism ::: n. --> Definition; logical direction.

dipleidoscope ::: n. --> An instrument for determining the time of apparent noon. It consists of two mirrors and a plane glass disposed in the form of a prism, so that, by the reflections of the sun&

directory ::: a. --> Containing directions; enjoining; instructing; directorial. ::: n. --> A collection or body of directions, rules, or ordinances; esp., a book of directions for the conduct of worship; as, the Directory used by the nonconformists instead of the Prayer Book.

disah. (ananta dasha dishah) ::: the ten directions of infinite space.

discordant ::: n. --> Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious.
Dissonant; not in harmony or musical concord; harsh; jarring; as, discordant notes or sounds.
Said of strata which lack conformity in direction of bedding, either as in unconformability, or as caused by a fault.


dispense ::: v. t. --> To deal out in portions; to distribute; to give; as, the steward dispenses provisions according directions; Nature dispenses her bounties; to dispense medicines.
To apply, as laws to particular cases; to administer; to execute; to manage; to direct.
To pay for; to atone for.
To exempt; to excuse; to absolve; -- with from.
Dispensation; exemption.


disposal ::: n. --> The act of disposing, or disposing of, anything; arrangement; orderly distribution; a putting in order; as, the disposal of the troops in two lines.
Ordering; regulation; adjustment; management; government; direction.
Regulation of the fate, condition, application, etc., of anything; the transference of anything into new hands, a new place, condition, etc.; alienation, or parting; as, a disposal of property.


disposure ::: n. --> The act of disposing; power to dispose of; disposal; direction.
Disposition; arrangement; position; posture.


distend ::: v. t. --> To extend in some one direction; to lengthen out; to stretch.
To stretch out or extend in all directions; to dilate; to enlarge, as by elasticity of parts; to inflate so as to produce tension; to cause to swell; as, to distend a bladder, the stomach, etc. ::: v. i.


distention ::: n. --> The act of distending; the act of stretching in breadth or in all directions; the state of being Distended; as, the distention of the lungs.
Breadth; extent or space occupied by the thing distended.


disthene ::: n. --> Cyanite or kyanite; -- so called in allusion to its unequal hardness in two different directions. See Cyanite.

distort ::: a. --> Distorted; misshapen. ::: v. t. --> To twist of natural or regular shape; to twist aside physically; as, to distort the limbs, or the body.
To force or put out of the true posture or direction; to twist aside mentally or morally.


distract ::: a. --> Separated; drawn asunder.
Insane; mad. ::: v. t. --> To draw apart or away; to divide; to disjoin.
To draw (the sight, mind, or attention) in different directions; to perplex; to confuse; as, to distract the eye; to


distraction ::: n. --> The act of distracting; a drawing apart; separation.
That which diverts attention; a diversion.
A diversity of direction; detachment.
State in which the attention is called in different ways; confusion; perplexity.
Confusion of affairs; tumult; disorder; as, political distractions.
Agitation from violent emotions; perturbation of mind;


divergent ::: a. --> Receding farther and farther from each other, as lines radiating from one point; deviating gradually from a given direction; -- opposed to convergent.
Causing divergence of rays; as, a divergent lens.
Fig.: Disagreeing from something given; differing; as, a divergent statement.


diverge ::: v. i. --> To extend from a common point in different directions; to tend from one point and recede from each other; to tend to spread apart; to turn aside or deviate (as from a given direction); -- opposed to converge; as, rays of light diverge as they proceed from the sun.
To differ from a typical form; to vary from a normal condition; to dissent from a creed or position generally held or taken.


diverging ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Diverge ::: a. --> Tending in different directions from a common center; spreading apart; divergent.

diverse ::: a. --> Different; unlike; dissimilar; distinct; separate.
Capable of various forms; multiform. ::: adv. --> In different directions; diversely. ::: v. i.


diversely ::: adv. --> In different ways; differently; variously.
In different directions; to different points.


diverts ::: turns aside from a course or direction.

docket ::: n. --> A small piece of paper or parchment, containing the heads of a writing; a summary or digest.
A bill tied to goods, containing some direction, as the name of the owner, or the place to which they are to be sent; a label.
An abridged entry of a judgment or proceeding in an action, or register or such entries; a book of original, kept by clerks of courts, containing a formal list of the names of parties, and minutes of the proceedings, in each case in court.


doctrinally ::: adv. --> In a doctrinal manner or for; by way of teaching or positive direction.

dog-legged ::: a. --> Noting a flight of stairs, consisting of two or more straight portions connected by a platform (landing) or platforms, and running in opposite directions without an intervening wellhole.

dogvane ::: n. --> A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind.

doloroso ::: a. & adv. --> Plaintive; pathetic; -- used adverbially as a musical direction.

domebook ::: n. --> A book said to have been compiled under the direction of King Alfred. It is supposed to have contained the principal maxims of the common law, the penalties for misdemeanors, and the forms of judicial proceedings. Domebook was probably a general name for book of judgments.

double-acting ::: a. --> Acting or operating in two directions or with both motions; producing a twofold result; as, a double-acting engine or pump.

double-ender ::: n. --> A vessel capable of moving in either direction, having bow and rudder at each end.
A locomotive with pilot at each end.


dovetail ::: n. --> A flaring tenon, or tongue (shaped like a bird&

downstream ::: in the direction of a stream"s current.

draw ::: 1. To cause to move in a given direction or to a given position, as by leading. 2. To bring towards oneself or itself, as by inherent force or influence; attract. 3. To cause to come by attracting; attract. 4. To cause to move in a particular direction by or as by a pulling force; pull; drag. 5. To get, take or obtain as from a source; to derive. 6. To bring, take, or pull out, as from a receptacle or source. 7. To draw a (or the) line (fig.) to determine or define the limit between two things or groups; in modern colloquial use (esp. with at), to lay down a definite limit of action beyond which one refuses to go. 8. To make, sketch (a picture or representation of someone or something) in lines or words; to design, trace out, delineate; depict; also, to mould, model. 9. To mark or lay out; trace. 10. To compose or write out in legal format. 11. To write out (a bill of exchange or promissory note). 12. To disembowel. 13. To move or pull so as to cover or uncover something. 14. To suck or take in (air, for example); inhale. 15. To extend, lengthen, prolong, protract. 16. To cause to move after or toward one by applying continuous force; drag. draws, drew, drawn, drawing, wide-drawn.

driftless ::: a. --> Having no drift or direction; without aim; purposeless.

drift ::: n. --> A driving; a violent movement.
The act or motion of drifting; the force which impels or drives; an overpowering influence or impulse.
Course or direction along which anything is driven; setting.
The tendency of an act, argument, course of conduct, or the like; object aimed at or intended; intention; hence, also, import or meaning of a sentence or discourse; aim.
That which is driven, forced, or urged along


drive ::: v. t. --> To impel or urge onward by force in a direction away from one, or along before one; to push forward; to compel to move on; to communicate motion to; as, to drive cattle; to drive a nail; smoke drives persons from a room.
To urge on and direct the motions of, as the beasts which draw a vehicle, or the vehicle borne by them; hence, also, to take in a carriage; to convey in a vehicle drawn by beasts; as, to drive a pair of horses or a stage; to drive a person to his own door.


duct ::: n. --> Any tube or canal by which a fluid or other substance is conducted or conveyed.
One of the vessels of an animal body by which the products of glandular secretion are conveyed to their destination.
A large, elongated cell, either round or prismatic, usually found associated with woody fiber.
Guidance; direction.


easement ::: n. --> That which gives ease, relief, or assistance; convenience; accommodation.
A liberty, privilege, or advantage, which one proprietor has in the estate of another proprietor, distinct from the ownership of the soil, as a way, water course, etc. It is a species of what the civil law calls servitude.
A curved member instead of an abrupt change of direction, as in a baseboard, hand rail, etc.


easterly ::: a. --> Coming from the east; as, it was easterly wind.
Situated, directed, or moving toward the east; as, the easterly side of a lake; an easterly course or voyage. ::: adv. --> Toward, or in the direction of, the east.


eastern ::: a. --> Situated or dwelling in the east; oriental; as, an eastern gate; Eastern countries.
Going toward the east, or in the direction of east; as, an eastern voyage.


east ::: n. --> The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to rise at the equinox, or the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and which is toward the right hand of one who faces the north; the point directly opposite to the west.
The eastern parts of the earth; the regions or countries which lie east of Europe; the orient. In this indefinite sense, the word is applied to Asia Minor, Syria, Chaldea, Persia, India, China,


eastwards ::: adv. --> Toward the east; in the direction of east from some point or place; as, New Haven lies eastward from New York.

eddy ::: n. --> A current of air or water running back, or in a direction contrary to the main current.
A current of water or air moving in a circular direction; a whirlpool. ::: v. i. --> To move as an eddy, or as in an eddy; to move in a circle.


edgelong ::: adv. --> In the direction of the edge.

edgewise ::: adv. --> With the edge towards anything; in the direction of the edge.

effort ::: n. --> An exertion of strength or power, whether physical or mental, in performing an act or aiming at an object; more or less strenuous endeavor; struggle directed to the accomplishment of an object; as, an effort to scale a wall.
A force acting on a body in the direction of its motion. ::: v. t.


electrepeter ::: n. --> An instrument used to change the direction of electric currents; a commutator.

electricity ::: n. --> A power in nature, a manifestation of energy, exhibiting itself when in disturbed equilibrium or in activity by a circuit movement, the fact of direction in which involves polarity, or opposition of properties in opposite directions; also, by attraction for many substances, by a law involving attraction between surfaces of unlike polarity, and repulsion between those of like; by exhibiting accumulated polar tension when the circuit is broken; and by producing heat, light, concussion, and often chemical changes when the circuit

ENERGIES. ::: All energies put info activity — thought, speech, feeling, act — go to constitute Karma. These things help to develop the nature in one direction or Another, and the nature and Us actions and reactions produce their consequences inward and outward ::: they also act on others and create movements in the general sum of forces which can return upon oneself sooner or later. Thoughts unexpressed can also go out as forces and produce their elTccts. It Is a mistake to think that a thought or will can have effect only when it is expressed in speech or act ::: the unspoken thought, the unexpressed w-ill arc also active energies and can produce their own vibrations, effects or reac- tions.

enfilade ::: n. --> A line or straight passage, or the position of that which lies in a straight line.
A firing in the direction of the length of a trench, or a line of parapet or troops, etc.; a raking fire. ::: v. t. --> To pierce, scour, or rake with shot in the direction


enjoinment ::: n. --> Direction; command; authoritative admonition.

equatorially ::: adv. --> So as to have motion or direction parallel to the equator.

exposition ::: n. --> The act of exposing or laying open; a setting out or displaying to public view.
The act of expounding or of laying open the sense or meaning of an author, or a passage; explanation; interpretation; the sense put upon a passage; a law, or the like, by an interpreter; hence, a work containing explanations or interpretations; a commentary.
Situation or position with reference to direction of view or accessibility to influence of sun, wind, etc.; exposure; as, an


face ::: n. --> The exterior form or appearance of anything; that part which presents itself to the view; especially, the front or upper part or surface; that which particularly offers itself to the view of a spectator.
That part of a body, having several sides, which may be seen from one point, or which is presented toward a certain direction; one of the bounding planes of a solid; as, a cube has six faces.
The principal dressed surface of a plate, disk, or pulley;


fake ::: n. --> One of the circles or windings of a cable or hawser, as it lies in a coil; a single turn or coil.
A trick; a swindle. ::: v. t. --> To coil (a rope, line, or hawser), by winding alternately in opposite directions, in layers usually of zigzag or figure of eight


far ::: n. --> A young pig, or a litter of pigs. ::: a. --> Distant in any direction; not near; remote; mutually separated by a wide space or extent.
Remote from purpose; contrary to design or wishes; as, far be it from me to justify cruelty.


feldspath ::: n. --> A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish.

fissile ::: a. --> Capable of being split, cleft, or divided in the direction of the grain, like wood, or along natural planes of cleavage, like crystals.

flexuous ::: a. --> Having turns, windings, or flexures.
Having alternate curvatures in opposite directions; bent in a zigzag manner.
Wavering; not steady; flickering.


flight ::: 1. The act or process of flying through the air with or without wings. 2. Fig. A passing above and beyond ordinary bounds. 3. A swift movement, transition, or progression. 4. A series of steps, terraces, etc., ascending without change of direction. flights.

fluctuate ::: v. i. --> To move as a wave; to roll hither and thither; to wave; to float backward and forward, as on waves; as, a fluctuating field of air.
To move now in one direction and now in another; to be wavering or unsteady; to be irresolute or undetermined; to vacillate. ::: v. t.


fluctuation ::: n. --> A motion like that of waves; a moving in this and that direction; as, the fluctuations of the sea.
A wavering; unsteadiness; as, fluctuations of opinion; fluctuations of prices.
The motion or undulation of a fluid collected in a natural or artifical cavity, which is felt when it is subjected to pressure or percussion.


follow ::: v. t. --> To go or come after; to move behind in the same path or direction; hence, to go with (a leader, guide, etc.); to accompany; to attend.
To endeavor to overtake; to go in pursuit of; to chase; to pursue; to prosecute.
To accept as authority; to adopt the opinions of; to obey; to yield to; to take as a rule of action; as, to follow good advice.


foreshorten ::: v. t. --> To represent on a plane surface, as if extended in a direction toward the spectator or nearly so; to shorten by drawing in perspective.
Fig.: To represent pictorially to the imagination.


foresight ::: n. --> The act or the power of foreseeing; prescience; foreknowledge.
Action in reference to the future; provident care; prudence; wise forethought.
Any sight or reading of the leveling staff, except the backsight; any sight or bearing taken by a compass or theodolite in a forward direction.
Muzzle sight. See Fore sight, under Fore, a.


forthright ::: adv. --> Straight forward; in a straight direction. ::: a. --> Direct; straightforward; as, a forthright man. ::: n.

four-way ::: a. --> Allowing passage in either of four directions; as, a four-way cock, or valve.

Free Association ::: The psychoanalytic technique of allowing a patient to talk without direction or input in order to analyze current issues of the client.

geotropism ::: n. --> A disposition to turn or incline towards the earth; the influence of gravity in determining the direction of growth of an organ.

gimbals ::: n. --> A contrivance for permitting a body to incline freely in all directions, or for suspending anything, as a barometer, ship&

ginglymus ::: n. --> A hinge joint; an articulation, admitting of flexion and extension, or motion in two directions only, as the elbow and the ankle.

glancing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Glance ::: a. --> Shooting, as light.
Flying off (after striking) in an oblique direction; as, a glancing shot.


GOVERNANCE BY THE DIVINE. ::: A constant aspiration for that is the first thing ; next a sort of stillness within and a draw- ing back from the outward action into the stillness and a sort of listening expectancy, not for a sound but for the spiritual feeling or direction of the consciousness that comes through the psychic.

government ::: n. --> The act of governing; the exercise of authority; the administration of laws; control; direction; regulation; as, civil, church, or family government.
The mode of governing; the system of polity in a state; the established form of law.
The right or power of governing; authority.
The person or persons authorized to administer the laws; the ruling power; the administration.


gravitate ::: v. i. --> To obey the law of gravitation; to exert a force Or pressure, or tend to move, under the influence of gravitation; to tend in any direction or toward any object.

grhyasutras (Grihyasutras) ::: [ritual works containing directions for domestic rites and ceremonies].

guidage ::: n. --> The reward given to a guide for services.
Guidance; lead; direction.


guidance ::: n. --> The act or result of guiding; the superintendence or assistance of a guide; direction; government; a leading.

guideboard ::: n. --> A board, as upon a guidepost having upon it directions or information as to the road.

guidebook ::: n. --> A book of directions and information for travelers, tourists, etc.

guide ::: n. 1. One who goes with or before for the purpose of leading the way: said of persons, of God, Providence, and of impersonal agents, such as stars, light, etc. 2. One who shows the way by leading, directing, or advising. Also fig. 3. One who serves as a model for others, as in a course of conduct. Guide, guides. v. 4. To assist one to travel through, or reach a destination in, an unfamiliar area, as by accompanying or giving directions. 5. To direct the course of; steer. 6.* Fig. To lead the way for (a person). guides, guided, guiding. **adj. *guideless.**

halfpace ::: n. --> A platform of a staircase where the stair turns back in exactly the reverse direction of the lower flight. See Quarterpace.

half-ray ::: n. --> A straight line considered as drawn from a center to an indefinite distance in one direction, the complete ray being the whole line drawn to an indefinite distance in both directions.

haul ::: v. t. --> To pull or draw with force; to drag.
To transport by drawing, as with horses or oxen; as, to haul logs to a sawmill.
To pull apart, as oxen sometimes do when yoked. ::: v. i. --> To change the direction of a ship by hauling the wind. See


healthward ::: a. & adv. --> In the direction of health; as, a healthward tendency.

hedgehog ::: n. --> A small European insectivore (Erinaceus Europaeus), and other allied species of Asia and Africa, having the hair on the upper part of its body mixed with prickles or spines. It is able to roll itself into a ball so as to present the spines outwardly in every direction. It is nocturnal in its habits, feeding chiefly upon insects.
The Canadian porcupine.
A species of Medicago (M. intertexta), the pods of which are armed with short spines; -- popularly so called.


heliometer ::: n. --> An instrument devised originally for measuring the diameter of the sun; now employed for delicate measurements of the distance and relative direction of two stars too far apart to be easily measured in the field of view of an ordinary telescope.

helmage ::: n. --> Guidance; direction.

helm ::: n. --> See Haulm, straw.
The apparatus by which a ship is steered, comprising rudder, tiller, wheel, etc.; -- commonly used of the tiller or wheel alone.
The place or office of direction or administration.
One at the place of direction or control; a steersman; hence, a guide; a director.
A helve.
A helmet.


herringbone ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or like, the spine of a herring; especially, characterized by an arrangement of work in rows of parallel lines, which in the alternate rows slope in different directions.

heterodromous ::: a. --> Having spirals of changing direction.
Moving in opposite directions; -- said of a lever, pulley, etc., in which the resistance and the actuating force are on opposite sides of the fulcrum or axis.


heteroscian ::: n. --> One who lives either north or south of the tropics, as contrasted with one who lives on the other side of them; -- so called because at noon the shadows always fall in opposite directions (the one northward, the other southward).

high ::: v. i. --> To hie.
To rise; as, the sun higheth. ::: superl. --> Elevated above any starting point of measurement, as a line, or surface; having altitude; lifted up; raised or extended in the direction of the zenith; lofty; tall; as, a high mountain, tower, tree;


hip ::: n. --> The projecting region of the lateral parts of one side of the pelvis and the hip joint; the haunch; the huckle.
The external angle formed by the meeting of two sloping sides or skirts of a roof, which have their wall plates running in different directions.
In a bridge truss, the place where an inclined end post meets the top chord.
The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose


hodograph ::: n. --> A curve described by the moving extremity of a line the other end of which is fixed, this line being constantly parallel to the direction of motion of, and having its length constantly proportional to the velocity of, a point moving in any path; -used in investigations respecting central forces.

holophote ::: n. --> A lamp with lenses or reflectors to collect the rays of light and throw them in a given direction; -- used in lighthouses.

homeward ::: a. --> Being in the direction of home; as, the homeward way. ::: adv. --> Alt. of Homewards

homewards ::: adv. --> Toward home; in the direction of one&

homodromous ::: a. --> Running in the same direction; -- said of stems twining round a support, or of the spiral succession of leaves on stems and their branches.
Moving in the same direction; -- said of a lever or pulley in which the resistance and the actuating force are both on the same side of the fulcrum or axis.


homotropous ::: a. --> Turned in the same direction with something else.
Having the radicle of the seed directed towards the hilum.


horizontally ::: adv. --> In a horizontal direction or position; on a level; as, moving horizontally.

IGNORANCE. ::: Avidya, the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life that flow from it and all that is natural to the separative consciousness and the egoistic mind and life.

This Ignorance is the result of a movement by which the cosmic Intelligence separated itself from the light of the Supermind (the divine Gnosis) and lost the Truth.

Sevenfold Ignorance ::: If we look at this Ignorance in which ordinarily we live by the very circumstance of our separative existence in a material, ip a spatial and temporal universe, wc see that on its obscurer side it reduces itself, from whatever direction we look at or approach it, into the fact of a many- sided self-ignorance. We are Ignorant of the Absolute which is the source of all being and becoming ; we take partial facts of being, temporal relations of the becoming for the whole truth of existence — that is the first, the original ignorance. We are ignorant of the spaceless, timeless, immobile and immutable Self ; we take the constant mobility and mutation of the cosmic becom- ing in Time and Space for the whole truth of existence — that is the second, the cosmic ignorance. We are ignorant of our universal self, the cosmic existence, the cosmic consciousness, our infinite unity with all being and becoming ; we take our limited egoistic mentality, vitality, corporeality for our true self and regard everything other than that as not-sclf — that is the tViTid, \Vie egoistic ignorance. V/c aie ignorant of oat eteinai becoming in Time ; we take this Uttle life in a small span of Time, in a petty field of Space for our beginning, our middle and our end, — that is the fourth, the temporal ignorance. Even within this brief temporal becoming we are ignorant of our large and complex being, of that in us which is super-conscient, sub- conscient, intraconscient, circumcooscient to our surface becoming; we take that surface becoming with its small selection of overtly mentalised experiences for our whole existence — that is the fifth, the psychological ignorance. We are ignorant of the true constitution of our becoming ; we take the mind or life or body or any two or all three tor our true principle or the whole account of what we are, losing sight of that which constitutes them and determines by its occult presence and is meant to deter- mine sovereignly by its emergence from their operations, — that is the sixth, the constitutional ignorance. As a result of all these ignorances, we miss the true knowledge, government and enjoy- ment of our life in the world ; we are ignorant in our thought, will, sensations, actions, return wrong or imperfect responses at every point to the questionings of the world, wander in a maze of errors and desires, strivings and failures, pain and pleasure, sin and stumbling, follow a crooked road, grope blindly for a changing goal, — that is the seventh, the practical ignorance.


imperate ::: a. --> Done by express direction; not involuntary; communded.

impolarly ::: adv. --> Not according to or in, the direction of the poles.

in a vertical direction; vertically upwards.

indirection ::: n. --> Oblique course or means; dishonest practices; indirectness.

incidence ::: n. --> A falling on or upon; an incident; an event.
The direction in which a body, or a ray of light or heat, falls on any surface.


incline ::: v. i. --> To deviate from a line, direction, or course, toward an object; to lean; to tend; as, converging lines incline toward each other; a road inclines to the north or south.
Fig.: To lean or tend, in an intellectual or moral sense; to favor an opinion, a course of conduct, or a person; to have a propensity or inclination; to be disposed.
To bow; to incline the head.


inclinnation ::: n. --> The act of inclining, or state of being inclined; a leaning; as, an inclination of the head.
A direction or tendency from the true vertical or horizontal direction; as, the inclination of a column, or of a road bed.
A tendency towards another body or point.
The angle made by two lines or planes; as, the inclination of the plane of the earth&


independence ::: n. --> The state or quality of being independent; freedom from dependence; exemption from reliance on, or control by, others; self-subsistence or maintenance; direction of one&

indetermination ::: n. --> Want of determination; an unsettled or wavering state, as of the mind.
Want of fixed or stated direction.


indorse ::: v. t. --> To cover the back of; to load or burden.
To write upon the back or outside of a paper or letter, as a direction, heading, memorandum, or address.
To write one&


inertia ::: n. --> That property of matter by which it tends when at rest to remain so, and when in motion to continue in motion, and in the same straight line or direction, unless acted on by some external force; -- sometimes called vis inertiae.
Inertness; indisposition to motion, exertion, or action; want of energy; sluggishness.
Want of activity; sluggishness; -- said especially of the uterus, when, in labor, its contractions have nearly or wholly ceased.


injunction ::: n. --> The act of enjoining; the act of directing, commanding, or prohibiting.
That which is enjoined; an order; a mandate; a decree; a command; a precept; a direction.
A writ or process, granted by a court of equity, and, insome cases, under statutes, by a court of law,whereby a party is required to do or to refrain from doing certain acts, according to the exigency of the writ.


instruction ::: n. --> The act of instructing, teaching, or furnishing with knowledge; information.
That which instructs, or with which one is instructed; the intelligence or information imparted
Precept; information; teachings.
Direction; order; command.


intendant ::: n. --> One who has the charge, direction, or management of some public business; a superintendent; as, an intendant of marine; an intendant of finance. ::: a. --> Attentive.

intorsion ::: n. --> A winding, bending, or twisting.
The bending or twining of any part of a plant toward one side or the other, or in any direction from the vertical.


invert ::: v. t. --> To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.


"In yoga experience the consciousness widens in every direction, around, below, above, in each direction stretching to infinity.” Letters on Yoga

“In yoga experience the consciousness widens in every direction, around, below, above, in each direction stretching to infinity.” Letters on Yoga

irshad :::   guidance; direction

isodiametric ::: a. --> Developed alike in the directions of the several lateral axes; -- said of crystals of both the tetragonal and hexagonal systems.
Having the several diameters nearly equal; -- said of the cells of ordinary parenchyma.


isotropic ::: a. --> Having the same properties in all directions; specifically, equally elastic in all directions.

isotropy ::: n. --> Uniformity of physical properties in all directions in a body; absence of all kinds of polarity; specifically, equal elasticity in all directions.

janus ::: n. --> A Latin deity represented with two faces looking in opposite directions. Numa is said to have dedicated to Janus the covered passage at Rome, near the Forum, which is usually called the Temple of Janus. This passage was open in war and closed in peace.

Jhumur: “These are not just images and not just there for effect. They represent certain movements in the being, certain forces that are universal, independent. It is not one man who suffers. At a certain level of existence these experiences are universal. There are forces that are at work on these levels, forces that really prey on man, really hound him in that sense. You can’t seem to escape them. When one is semi-conscious or lives as we do in an in-between state, not knowing exactly which is your direction, you have this force really at your heels, pushing you sometimes into suffering, into death. You feel that you have been deserted. Sometimes there is a notion of karma, at other times you feel that it is some force that is pushing you. These are universal forces in the field of life, in the field of the subconscient, in the unconsciousness. On these levels they are not images they are powers which Sri Aurobindo has given a certain shape, form, image.”

Karma Yoga ::: Aims at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Will. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an interested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renunciation it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the Divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.
   Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 39-40


KARMA YOGA. ::: It alms at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Wilt. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an inter- ested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renuncia- tion it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre^ of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To that our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoislic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the

latitudinal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to latitude; in the direction of latitude.

lead ::: v. 1. To go in advance; act as a guide; show the way. 2. To guide in direction, course, action, opinion, etc. 3. Of a way, road, etc.: To serve as a passage for, conduct (a person) to or into a place; hence, to have a specified goal or direction. 4. To pass or go through; live. 5. To result in; tend toward (often followed by to). 6. To indicate, as a clue, guide or indication of a route way, course. leads, leading, leadst.* n. 7. Anything or anyone who guides or directs by leading; going in front. ::: (Note: See also *sounding leads.)

lean ::: 1. To incline or bend from a vertical or other position or direction. 2. To depend or rely on or upon. leans, leaned, leaning.

leeward ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the part or side toward which the wind blows; -- opposed to windward; as, a leeward berth; a leeward ship. ::: n. --> The lee side; the lee.

left-handed ::: a. --> Having the left hand or arm stronger and more dexterous than the right; using the left hand and arm with more dexterity than the right.
Clumsy; awkward; unlucky; insincere; sinister; malicious; as, a left-handed compliment.
Having a direction contrary to that of the hands of a watch when seen in front; -- said of a twist, a rotary motion, etc., looked at from a given direction.


lengthwise ::: adv. --> In the direction of the length; in a longitudinal direction.

lens ::: n. --> A piece of glass, or other transparent substance, ground with two opposite regular surfaces, either both curved, or one curved and the other plane, and commonly used, either singly or combined, in optical instruments, for changing the direction of rays of light, and thus magnifying objects, or otherwise modifying vision. In practice, the curved surfaces are usually spherical, though rarely cylindrical, or of some other figure.

libration point ::: n. --> any one of five points in the plane of a system of two large astronomical bodies orbiting each other, as the Earth-moon system, where the gravitational pull of the two bodies on an object are approximately equal, and in opposite directions. A solid object moving in the same velocity and direction as such a libration point will remain in gravitational equilibrium with the two bodies of the system and not fall toward either body.

lineal ::: a. --> Descending in a direct line from an ancestor; hereditary; derived from ancestors; -- opposed to collateral; as, a lineal descent or a lineal descendant.
Inheriting by direct descent; having the right by direct descent to succeed (to).
Composed of lines; delineated; as, lineal designs.
In the direction of a line; of or pertaining to a line; measured on, or ascertained by, a line; linear; as, lineal magnitude.


linear ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a line; consisting of lines; in a straight direction; lineal.
Like a line; narrow; of the same breadth throughout, except at the extremities; as, a linear leaf.


loco ::: adv. --> A direction in written or printed music to return to the proper pitch after having played an octave higher. ::: n. --> A plant (Astragalus Hornii) growing in the Southwestern United States, which is said to poison horses and cattle, first making them insane. The name is also given vaguely to several other species of

longitudinal ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to longitude or length; as, longitudinal distance.
Extending in length; in the direction of the length; running lengthwise, as distinguished from transverse; as, the longitudinal diameter of a body. ::: n.


longitudinally ::: adv. --> In the direction of length.

long ::: superl. --> Drawn out in a line, or in the direction of length; protracted; extended; as, a long line; -- opposed to short, and distinguished from broad or wide.
Drawn out or extended in time; continued through a considerable tine, or to a great length; as, a long series of events; a long debate; a long drama; a long history; a long book.
Slow in passing; causing weariness by length or duration; lingering; as, long hours of watching.


lower ::: a. --> Compar. of Low, a.
To let descend by its own weight, as something suspended; to let down; as, to lower a bucket into a well; to lower a sail or a boat; sometimes, to pull down; as, to lower a flag.
To reduce the height of; as, to lower a fence or wall; to lower a chimney or turret.
To depress as to direction; as, to lower the aim of a gun; to make less elevated as to object; as, to lower one&


lozengy ::: a. --> Divided into lozenge-shaped compartments, as the field or a bearing, by lines drawn in the direction of the bend sinister.

Madhav: “Gropes means moves without direction, searching for direction; our desires, our passions, our intensities search for this fulfilment in her [the Mother].” The Book of the Divine Mother

Madhav: Serpent signifies seething energy with a consciousness proper to its order. There is the serpent of the material zone, serpent of the vital and so on. And this consciousness is the Power of Evolution. This Power of Evolution combines with the force that has emerged from below. It lends to it its character of consciousness, step by step. The Force that was hitherto un-conscious, insensible is taken up and given a direction by Nature’s conscious, dynamic Power.” The Book of the Divine Mother

Madhav: “The wheel of determinism in material Nature turns mechanically without any saving sensation, it moves under the pressure of a gathered momentum without questioning; it is immaterial in its operations without the slightest breath of the warmth of life. All circumstances are cogs in this wheel of Fate that revolves relentlessly. It is only a force of will from an existence beyond the domain of this mechanism that can hold the movement, change its direction and displace the instrumental condition.” Readings in Savitri, Vol. I.

maestoso ::: a. & adv. --> Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

magnetic ::: a. --> Alt. of Magnetical ::: n. --> A magnet.
Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.


manage ::: n. --> The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.
To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.
Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one&


managery ::: n. --> Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
Husbandry; economy; frugality.


marcato ::: a. --> In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction.

marker ::: n. --> One who or that which marks.
One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.
A counter used in card playing and other games.
The soldier who forms the pilot of a wheeling column, or marks the direction of an alignment.
An attachment to a sewing machine for marking a line on the fabric by creasing it.


martello tower ::: --> A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.

meet ::: v. t. --> To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.
To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.
To come into the presence of without contact; to come


megaphone ::: n. --> A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.

meridionally ::: adv. --> In the direction of the meridian.

meteoroscope ::: n. --> An astrolabe; a planisphere.
An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.


mihrab :::   niche in the wall which shows the direction of prayer

misdirection ::: n. --> The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
An error of a judge in charging the jury on a matter of law.


misdirect ::: v. t. --> To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one&

misurato ::: a. --> Measured; -- a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.

mobile ::: a. --> Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.
Changing in appearance and expression under the influence


modiste ::: n. --> A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.

monoclinal ::: a. --> Having one oblique inclination; -- applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.

monotomous ::: a. --> Having a distinct cleavage in a single direction only.

monsoon ::: n. --> A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; -- a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.

morbidezza ::: n. --> Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
A term used as a direction in execution, signifying, with extreme delicacy.


motion ::: n. --> The act, process, or state of changing place or position; movement; the passing of a body from one place or position to another, whether voluntary or involuntary; -- opposed to rest.
Power of, or capacity for, motion.
Direction of movement; course; tendency; as, the motion of the planets is from west to east.
Change in the relative position of the parts of anything; action of a machine with respect to the relative movement of its parts.


Motive ::: Internal states that provide direction for one&

n. 1. An impelling motive, force, pressure, action, influence, etc.; impulse. 2. An involuntary, natural or instinctive impulse. v. 3. To press forcibly in some direction; to force or impel forward or onward; to drive.

naturalism ::: n. --> A state of nature; conformity to nature.
The doctrine of those who deny a supernatural agency in the miracles and revelations recorded in the Bible, and in spiritual influences; also, any system of philosophy which refers the phenomena of nature to a blind force or forces acting necessarily or according to fixed laws, excluding origination or direction by one intelligent will.


nebuly ::: a. --> Composed of successive short curves supposed to resemble a cloud; -- said of a heraldic line by which an ordinary or subordinary may be bounded. ::: n. --> A line or a direction composed of successive short curves or waves supposed to resembe a cloud. See NEbulE

Negative Correlation ::: a correlation where one two variables tend to move in the opposite direction (example: the number of pages printed and the amount of ink left in your printer are negatively correlated. The more pages printed, the less ink you have left.)

northerliness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being northerly; direction toward the north.

northern ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the north; being in the north, or nearer to that point than to the east or west.
In a direction toward the north; as, to steer a northern course; coming from the north; as, a northern wind.


north ::: n. --> That one of the four cardinal points of the compass, at any place, which lies in the direction of the true meridian, and to the left hand of a person facing the east; the direction opposite to the south.
Any country or region situated farther to the north than another; the northern section of a country.
Specifically: That part of the United States lying north of Mason and Dixon&


northwardly ::: a. --> Having a northern direction. ::: adv. --> In a northern direction.

northwestern ::: a. --> Of, pertaining to, or being in, the northwest; in a direction toward the northwest; coming from the northwest; northwesterly; as, a northwestern course.

northwest ::: n. --> The point in the horizon between the north and west, and equally distant from each; the northwest part or region. ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the point between the north and west; being in the northwest; toward the northwest, or coming from the northwest; as, the northwest coast.

nowhither ::: adv. --> Not anywhither; in no direction; nowhere.

onward ::: a. --> Moving in a forward direction; tending toward a contemplated or desirable end; forward; as, an onward course, progress, etc.
Advanced in a forward direction or toward an end. ::: adv. --> Toward a point before or in front; forward;


opposite ::: adj. **1. Contrary or radically different in some respect common to both, as in nature, qualities, direction, result, or significance; opposed. 2. Situated, placed, or lying face to face with something else or each other, or in corresponding positions with relation to an intervening line, space, or thing. n. 2. One that is opposite or contrary to another. opposites, Opposites.**

oppositely ::: adv. --> In a situation to face each other; in an opposite manner or direction; adversely.

order ::: 1. A condition of methodical or prescribed arrangement among component parts such that proper functioning or appearance is achieved; methodical or harmonic arrangement. 2. A condition of logical or comprehensible arrangement among the separate elements of a group. 3. Conformity or obedience to law or established authority. 4. A sequence or arrangement of successive things. 5. An authoritative indication to be obeyed; a command or direction. order"s, orders.

orientate ::: v. t. --> To place or turn toward the east; to cause to assume an easterly direction, or to veer eastward.
To arrange in order; to dispose or place (a body) so as to show its relation to other bodies, or the relation of its parts among themselves. ::: v. i.


orthoclastic ::: a. --> Breaking in directions at right angles to each other; -- said of the monoclinic feldspars.

outboard ::: a. & adv. --> Beyond or outside of the lines of a vessel&

outwards ::: adv. --> From the interior part; in a direction from the interior toward the exterior; out; to the outside; beyond; off; away; as, a ship bound outward.
See Outward, adv.


ovaliform ::: a. --> Having the form of an egg; having a figure such that any section in the direction of the shorter diameter will be circular, and any in the direction of the longer diameter will be oval.

overbow ::: v. t. --> To bend or bow over; to bend in a contrary direction.

overreach ::: v. t. --> To reach above or beyond in any direction.
To deceive, or get the better of, by artifice or cunning; to outwit; to cheat. ::: v. i. --> To reach too far
To strike the toe of the hind foot against the heel


pandect ::: n. --> A treatise which comprehends the whole of any science.
The digest, or abridgment, in fifty books, of the decisions, writings, and opinions of the old Roman jurists, made in the sixth century by direction of the emperor Justinian, and forming the leading compilation of the Roman civil law.


panorama ::: n. --> A complete view in every direction.
A picture presenting a view of objects in every direction, as from a central point.
A picture representing scenes too extended to be beheld at once, and so exhibited a part at a time, by being unrolled, and made to pass continuously before the spectator.


parallel ::: a. --> Extended in the same direction, and in all parts equally distant; as, parallel lines; parallel planes.
Having the same direction or tendency; running side by side; being in accordance (with); tending to the same result; -- used with to and with.
Continuing a resemblance through many particulars; applicable in all essential parts; like; similar; as, a parallel case; a parallel passage.


pawl ::: n. --> A pivoted tongue, or sliding bolt, on one part of a machine, adapted to fall into notches, or interdental spaces, on another part, as a ratchet wheel, in such a manner as to permit motion in one direction and prevent it in the reverse, as in a windlass; a catch, click, or detent. See Illust. of Ratchet Wheel. ::: v. t.

peritomous ::: a. --> Cleaving in more directions than one, parallel to the axis.

photodrome ::: n. --> An apparatus consisting of a large wheel with spokes, which when turning very rapidly is illuminated by momentary flashes of light passing through slits in a rotating disk. By properly timing the succession of flashes the wheel is made to appear to be motionless, or to rotate more or less slowly in either direction.

pianissimo ::: a. --> Very soft; -- a direction to execute a passage as softly as possible. (Abbrev. pp.)

piano ::: a. & adv. --> Soft; -- a direction to the performer to execute a certain passage softly, and with diminished volume of tone. (Abbrev. p.) ::: a. --> Alt. of Pianoforte

pizzicato ::: --> A direction to violinists to pluck the string with the finger, instead of using the bow. (Abrev. pizz.)

pleochroism ::: n. --> The property possessed by some crystals, of showing different colors when viewed in the direction of different axes.

plumb ::: n. --> A little mass or weight of lead, or the like, attached to a line, and used by builders, etc., to indicate a vertical direction; a plummet; a plumb bob. See Plumb line, below. ::: a. --> Perpendicular; vertical; conforming the direction of a line attached to a plumb; as, the wall is plumb.

pointer ::: n. --> One who, or that which, points.
The hand of a timepiece.
One of a breed of dogs trained to stop at scent of game, and with the nose point it out to sportsmen.
The two stars (Merak and Dubhe) in the Great Bear, the line between which points nearly in the direction of the north star.
Diagonal braces sometimes fixed across the hold.


pointing ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Point ::: n. --> The act of sharpening.
The act of designating, as a position or direction, by means of something pointed, as a finger or a rod.
The act or art of punctuating; punctuation.


polarity ::: n. --> That quality or condition of a body in virtue of which it exhibits opposite, or contrasted, properties or powers, in opposite, or contrasted, parts or directions; or a condition giving rise to a contrast of properties corresponding to a contrast of positions, as, for example, attraction and repulsion in the opposite parts of a magnet, the dissimilar phenomena corresponding to the different sides of a polarized ray of light, etc.
A property of the conic sections by virtue of which a


polarization ::: n. --> The act of polarizing; the state of being polarized, or of having polarity.
A peculiar affection or condition of the rays of light or heat, in consequence of which they exhibit different properties in different directions.
An effect produced upon the plates of a voltaic battery, or the electrodes in an electrolytic cell, by the deposition upon them of the gases liberated by the action of the current. It is


polary ::: a. --> Tending to a pole; having a direction toward a pole.

Positive Correlation ::: A correlation where as one variable increases, the other also increases, or as one decreases so does the other. Both variables move in the same direction.

pradakshina. ::: walking around a sacred place, object or person in a clockwise direction, signifying that the Lord is the Centre and Source of life

PRaNAYAMA. ::: Regulated direction and arrestation by exer- cises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body ; control of the breath or vital force ; Yogic exercise of the con- trol of the vital forces.

Pranayama ::: …regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body.
   Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 530


pranayama ::: the government and control of the respiration; regulated direction and arrestation by exercises of breathing of the vital currents of energy in the body.

PRAYER. ::: The life of man is a life of wants and needs and therefore of desires, not only in his physical and vital, but in his mental and spiritual being. When he becomes conscious of a greater Power governing the world, he approaches it through prayer for the fulfilment of his needs, for help in his rough journey, for protection and aid in his struggle. Whatever crudi- ties there may be in the ordinary religious approach to God by prayer, and there are many, especially that attitude which ima- gines the Divine as if capable of being propitiated, bribed, flat- tered into acquiescence or indulgence by praise, entreaty and gifts and has often little te^td to the spirit in which he is approached, still this way of turning to the Divine is an essen- tial movement of our religious being and reposes on a universal truth.

The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that, being omniscient, his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual's desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least, human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a thing great and effective whether for lower or higher purposes, -and there are plenty of disciplines which put it forward as the one force to be used, -- or it can act in dependence upon and with subordination to the divine or the universal Will. And this latter way, again, may either look upon that Will as responsive indeed to our aspiration, but almost mechanically, by a sort of law of energy, or at any rate quite impersonally, or else it may look upon it as responding consciously to the divine aspiration and faith of the human soul and consciously bringing to it the help, the guidance, the protection and fruition demanded, yogaksemam vahamyaham. ~ TSOY, SYN

Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is (here consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the givinc of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of man’s life with God, the conscious interchange.

In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily, in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, -- in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there, -- or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.

Prayer for others ::: The fact of praying and the attitude it brings, especially unselfish prayer for others, itself opens you to the higher Power, even if there is no corresponding result in the person prayed for. 'Nothing can be positively said about that, for the result must necessarily depend on the persons, whe- ther they arc open or receptive or something in them can res- pond to any Force the prayer brings down.

Prayer must well up from the heart on a crest of emotion or aspiration.

Prayer {Ideal)'. Not prayer insisting on immediate fulfilment, but prayer that is itself a communion of the mind and heart with the Divine*and can have the joy and satisfaction of itself, trusting for fulfilment by the Divine in his own time.


Prayer ::: The life of man is a life of wants and needs and th
   refore of desires, not only in his physical and vital, but in his mental and spiritual being. When he becomes conscious of a greater Power governing the world, he approaches it through prayer for the fulfilment of his needs, for help in his rough journey, for protection and aid in his struggle. Whatever crudities there may be in the ordinary religious approach to God by prayer, and there are many, especially that attitude which imagines the Divine as if capable of being propitiated, bribed, flattered into acquiescence or indulgence by praise, entreaty and gifts and has often little regard to the spirit in which he is approached, still this way of turning to the Divine is an essential movement of our religious being and reposes on a universal truth. The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that being omniscient his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual’s desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. Prayer is only a particular form given to that will, aspiration and faith. Its forms are very often crude and not only childlike, which is in itself no defect, but childish; but still it has a real power and significance. Its power and sense is to put the will, aspiration and faith of man into touch with the divine Will as that of a conscious Being with whom we can enter into conscious and living relations. For our will and aspiration can act either by our own strength and endeavour, which can no doubt be made a thing great and effective whether for lower or higher purposes,—and there are plenty of disciplines which put it forward as the one force to be used,—or it can act in dependence upon and with subordination to the divine or the universal Will. And this latter way again may either look upon thatWill as responsive indeed to our aspiration, but almost mechanically, by a sort of law of energy, or at any rate quite impersonally, or else it may look upon it as responding consciously to the divine aspiration and faith of the human soul and consciously bringing to it the help, the guidance, the protection and fruition demanded. Prayer helps to prepare this relation for us at first on the lower plane even while it is there consistent with much that is mere egoism and self-delusion; but afterwards we can draw towards the spiritual truth which is behind it. It is not then the giving of the thing asked for that matters, but the relation itself, the contact of man’s life with God, the conscious interchange. In spiritual matters and in the seeking of spiritual gains, this conscious relation is a great power; it is a much greater power than our own entirely self-reliant struggle and effort and it brings a fuller spiritual growth and experience. Necessarily in the end prayer either ceases in the greater thing for which it prepared us, —in fact the form we call prayer is not itself essential so long as the faith, the will, the aspiration are there,—or remains only for the joy of the relation. Also its objects, the artha or interest it seeks to realise, become higher and higher until we reach the highest motiveless devotion, which is that of divine love pure and simple without any other demand or longing.
   Ref: CWSA Vol. 23-24, Page: 566-67-68


preceding ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Precede ::: a. --> Going before; -- opposed to following.
In the direction toward which stars appear to move. See Following, 2.


prescribe ::: v. t. --> To lay down authoritatively as a guide, direction, or rule of action; to impose as a peremptory order; to dictate; to appoint; to direct.
To direct, as a remedy to be used by a patient; as, the doctor prescribed quinine. ::: v. i.


prescript ::: a. --> Directed; prescribed. ::: n. --> Direction; precept; model prescribed.
A medical prescription.


prescription ::: n. --> The act of prescribing, directing, or dictating; direction; precept; also, that which is prescribed.
A direction of a remedy or of remedies for a disease, and the manner of using them; a medical recipe; also, a prescribed remedy.
A prescribing for title; the claim of title to a thing by virtue immemorial use and enjoyment; the right or title acquired by possession had during the time and in the manner fixed by


press ::: n. 1. A crowd, throng, or multitude. 2. A crowding, thronging, or pressing together; a collective force. 3. Pressure or demands of affairs; urgency, haste, hurry. v. 4. To exert weight, force or pressure. 5. To advance or carry on vigorously despite obstacles in one"s way. 6. To impress (a thing) upon the mind, etc., emphasize, inculcate. 7. To beset or harass; afflict. 8. To cause to move in some direction or into some position by pressure; to push, drive, thrust. 9. To compress or squeeze. 10. To squeeze out or express, as juice. 11. To urge or entreat strongly or insistently. 12. To hold closely as in an embrace; clasp. presses, pressed, pressing.

presto ::: a. --> Quickly; immediately; in haste; suddenly.
Quickly; rapidly; -- a direction for a quick, lively movement or performance; quicker than allegro, or any rate of time except prestissimo.


prolate ::: a. --> Stretched out; extended; especially, elongated in the direction of a line joining the poles; as, a prolate spheroid; -- opposed to oblate. ::: v. t. --> To utter; to pronounce.

providence ::: a manifestation of divine care or direction.

providence ::: n. --> The act of providing or preparing for future use or application; a making ready; preparation.
Foresight; care; especially, the foresight and care which God manifests for his creatures; hence, God himself, regarded as exercising a constant wise prescience.
A manifestation of the care and superintendence which God exercises over his creatures; an event ordained by divine direction.


providential ::: a. --> Effected by, or referable to, divine direction or superintendence; as, the providential contrivance of thing; a providential escape.

province ::: n. --> A country or region, more or less remote from the city of Rome, brought under the Roman government; a conquered country beyond the limits of Italy.
A country or region dependent on a distant authority; a portion of an empire or state, esp. one remote from the capital.
A region of country; a tract; a district.
A region under the supervision or direction of any special person; the district or division of a country, especially an


pulley ::: v. t. --> A wheel with a broad rim, or grooved rim, for transmitting power from, or imparting power to, the different parts of machinery, or for changing the direction of motion, by means of a belt, cord, rope, or chain. ::: b. t. --> To raise or lift by means of a pulley.

qiblah :::   direction turned to during prayer, which is geographically towards the Ka’aba in Mecca

quaquaversal ::: a. --> Turning or dipping in any or every direction.
Dipping toward all points of the compass round a center, as beds of lava round a crater.


quartermaster ::: n. --> An officer whose duty is to provide quarters, provisions, storage, clothing, fuel, stationery, and transportation for a regiment or other body of troops, and superintend the supplies.
A petty officer who attends to the helm, binnacle, signals, and the like, under the direction of the master.


quincunx ::: n. --> An arrangement of things by fives in a square or a rectangle, one being placed at each corner and one in the middle; especially, such an arrangement of trees repeated indefinitely, so as to form a regular group with rows running in various directions.
The position of planets when distant from each other five signs, or 150¡.
A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in aestivation. See Quincuncial, 2.


rallentando ::: a. --> Slackening; -- a direction to perform a passage with a gradual decrease in time and force; ritardando.

random ::: n. --> Force; violence.
A roving motion; course without definite direction; want of direction, rule, or method; hazard; chance; -- commonly used in the phrase at random, that is, without a settled point of direction; at hazard.
Distance to which a missile is cast; range; reach; as, the random of a rifle ball.
The direction of a rake-vein.


reaction ::: n. --> Any action in resisting other action or force; counter tendency; movement in a contrary direction; reverse action.
The mutual or reciprocal action of chemical agents upon each other, or the action upon such chemical agents of some form of energy, as heat, light, or electricity, resulting in a chemical change in one or more of these agents, with the production of new compounds or the manifestation of distinctive characters. See Blowpipe reaction, Flame reaction, under Blowpipe, and Flame.


receipt ::: n. --> The act of receiving; reception.
Reception, as an act of hospitality.
Capability of receiving; capacity.
Place of receiving.
Hence, a recess; a retired place.
A formulary according to the directions of which things are to be taken or combined; a recipe; as, a receipt for making sponge cake.


recurved ::: a. --> Curved in an opposite or uncommon direction; bent back; as, a bird with a recurved bill; flowers with recurved petals.

recurve ::: v. t. --> To curve in an opposite or unusual direction; to bend back or down.

reference ::: n. --> The act of referring, or the state of being referred; as, reference to a chart for guidance.
That which refers to something; a specific direction of the attention; as, a reference in a text-book.
Relation; regard; respect.
One who, or that which, is referred to.
One of whom inquires can be made as to the integrity, capacity, and the like, of another.


refraction ::: n. --> The act of refracting, or the state of being refracted.
The change in the direction of ray of light, heat, or the like, when it enters obliquely a medium of a different density from that through which it has previously moved.
The change in the direction of a ray of light, and, consequently, in the apparent position of a heavenly body from which it emanates, arising from its passage through the earth&


regulation ::: n. --> The act of regulating, or the state of being regulated.
A rule or order prescribed for management or government; prescription; a regulating principle; a governing direction; precept; law; as, the regulations of a society or a school.


regurgitation ::: n. --> The act of flowing or pouring back by the orifice of entrance
the reversal of the natural direction in which the current or contents flow through a tube or cavity of the body.
The act of swallowing again; reabsorption.


repace ::: v. t. --> To pace again; to walk over again in a contrary direction.

repass ::: v. t. --> To pass again; to pass or travel over in the opposite direction; to pass a second time; as, to repass a bridge or a river; to repass the sea. ::: v. i. --> To pass or go back; to move back; as, troops passing and repassing before our eyes.

retrace ::: v. t. --> To trace back, as a line.
To go back, in or over (a previous course); to go over again in a reverse direction; as, to retrace one&


reversal ::: a. --> Intended to reverse; implying reversal. ::: n. --> The act of reversing; the causing to move or face in an opposite direction, or to stand or lie in an inverted position; as, the reversal of a rotating wheel; the reversal of objects by a convex lens.
A change or overthrowing; as, the reversal of a judgment,


reverse ::: a. --> Turned backward; having a contrary or opposite direction; hence; opposite or contrary in kind; as, the reverse order or method.
Turned upside down; greatly disturbed.
Reversed; as, a reverse shell.
That which appears or is presented when anything, as a lance, a line, a course of conduct, etc., is reverted or turned contrary to its natural direction.
That which is directly opposite or contrary to something


reversed ::: opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character.

reverse ::: n. **1. The side of a coin or medal that does not carry the principal design. v. 2. To revoke or set aside (a judgment, decree, etc.); annul. 3. To change into something different or contrary; alter completely. 4. To turn and proceed in the opposite direction. reversed, reversing.**

reverted ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Revert ::: a. --> Turned back; reversed. Specifically: (Her.) Bent or curved twice, in opposite directions, or in the form of an S.

rheotrope ::: n. --> An instrument for reversing the direction of an electric current.

right-about ::: n. --> A turning directly about by the right, so as to face in the opposite direction; also, the quarter directly opposite; as, to turn to the right-about.

right-handed ::: a. --> Using the right hand habitually, or more easily than the left.
Having the same direction or course as the movement of the hands of a watch seen in front; -- said of the motion of a revolving object looked at from a given direction.
Having the whorls rising from left to right; dextral; -- said of spiral shells. See Illust. of Scalaria.


right ::: n. 1. Something that is due to a person or governmental body by law, tradition, or nature. 2. That which is morally, legally, or ethically proper. 3. A moral, ethical, or legal principle considered as an underlying cause of truth, justice, morality, or ethics. 4. That which is in accord with fact, reason, propriety, the correct way of thinking, etc. 5. A just or legal claim or title. 6. The side that is normally opposite to that where the heart is; the direction towards that side. 7. in (one"s, it"s) own right. By reason of one"s own ability, ownership, etc.; in or of oneself, as independent of others. Right, right"s. *adj. *8. In accordance with what is good, proper, or just.

rinforzando ::: a. --> Increasing; strengthening; -- a direction indicating a sudden increase of force (abbreviated rf., rfz.) Cf. Forzando, and Sforzando.

ripsaw ::: v. t. --> A handsaw with coarse teeth which have but a slight set, used for cutting wood in the direction of the fiber; -- called also ripping saw.

rising ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Rise ::: a. --> Attaining a higher place; taking, or moving in, an upward direction; appearing above the horizon; ascending; as, the rising moon.
Increasing in wealth, power, or distinction; as, a rising state; a rising character.


ritardando ::: a. --> Retarding; -- a direction for slower time; rallentado.

roam ::: v. i. --> To go from place to place without any certain purpose or direction; to rove; to wander. ::: v. t. --> To range or wander over. ::: n.

round ::: adj. 1. Full, complete, entire. rounded. 2. Whole or complete; full. 3. Expressed to the nearest ten, hundred, or thousand; rounded by approximation. adv. 4. Involving or using circular motion. 5. On all sides; all about; surrounding; enveloping. 6. In all directions from a centre or point of reference. 7. In a circular or rounded course. prep. 8. Around.

rule ::: a. --> That which is prescribed or laid down as a guide for conduct or action; a governing direction for a specific purpose; an authoritative enactment; a regulation; a prescription; a precept; as, the rules of various societies; the rules governing a school; a rule of etiquette or propriety; the rules of cricket.
Uniform or established course of things.
Systematic method or practice; as, my ule is to rise at six o&


saltirewise ::: adv. --> In the manner of a saltire; -- said especially of the blazoning of a shield divided by two lines drawn in the direction of a bend and a bend sinister, and crossing at the center.

sarcina ::: n. --> A genus of bacteria found in various organic fluids, especially in those those of the stomach, associated with certain diseases. The individual organisms undergo division along two perpendicular partitions, so that multiplication takes place in two directions, giving groups of four cubical cells. Also used adjectively; as, a sarcina micrococcus; a sarcina group.

scalar ::: n. --> In the quaternion analysis, a quantity that has magnitude, but not direction; -- distinguished from a vector, which has both magnitude and direction.

scattered ::: adj. 1. Refracted and dispersed in all directions, as of light. 2. Lacking orderly continuity. 3. Distributed or occurring at widely spaced and usually irregular intervals.

scattering ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Scatter ::: a. --> Going or falling in various directions; not united or aggregated; divided among many; as, scattering votes. ::: n.

scatter ::: n. 1. The act of scattering or causing to separate and go in different directions. v. 2. To throw loosely about; distribute at irregular intervals. 3. To separate and go in different directions; disperse. scatters, scattered, scattering.

scatter ::: v. t. --> To strew about; to sprinkle around; to throw down loosely; to deposit or place here and there, esp. in an open or sparse order.
To cause to separate in different directions; to reduce from a close or compact to a loose or broken order; to dissipate; to disperse.
Hence, to frustrate, disappoint, and overthrow; as, to scatter hopes, plans, or the like.


screw ::: n. --> A cylinder, or a cylindrical perforation, having a continuous rib, called the thread, winding round it spirally at a constant inclination, so as to leave a continuous spiral groove between one turn and the next, -- used chiefly for producing, when revolved, motion or pressure in the direction of its axis, by the sliding of the threads of the cylinder in the grooves between the threads of the perforation adapted to it, the former being distinguished as the external, or male screw, or, more usually the screw; the latter as the

seismometer ::: n. --> An instrument for measuring the direction, duration, and force of earthquakes and like concussions.

sematrope ::: n. --> An instrument for signaling by reflecting the rays of the sun in different directions.

serpentize ::: v. i. --> To turn or bend like a serpent, first in one direction and then in the opposite; to meander; to wind; to serpentine.

sforzato ::: a. --> Forcing or forced; -- a direction placed over a note, to signify that it must be executed with peculiar emphasis and force; -- marked fz (an abbreviation of forzando), sf, sfz, or /.

shifting ::: n. The action of changing or transferring from one place, position, direction, to another. shiftings, scene-shifter. adj. That moves from one place to another; changes position or direction. oft-shifting.

shifting ::: p. pr. & vb. n. --> of Shift ::: a. --> Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
Adapted or used for shifting anything.


sidelong ::: adv. --> Laterally; obliquely; in the direction of the side.
On the side; as, to lay a thing sidelong. ::: a. --> Lateral; oblique; not being directly in front; as, a sidelong glance.


siderostat ::: n. --> An apparatus consisting essentially of a mirror moved by clockwork so as to throw the rays of the sun or a star in a fixed direction; -- a more general term for heliostat.

sigmoidal ::: a. --> Curved in two directions, like the letter S, or the Greek /.

signal ::: n. 1. An indicator, such as a gesture or colored light, that serves as a means of communication. 2. Anything that acts as an incitement to action. Also fig. **signals. adj. 3. Used to give or act as a signal. signalling. 4. Serving as a warning, direction, command, or the like. signal fires, signal flares, signal light.**

single-acting ::: a. --> Having simplicity of action; especially (Mach.), acting or exerting force during strokes in one direction only; -- said of a reciprocating engine, pump, etc.

sinister ::: a. --> On the left hand, or the side of the left hand; left; -- opposed to dexter, or right.
Unlucky; inauspicious; disastrous; injurious; evil; -- the left being usually regarded as the unlucky side; as, sinister influences.
Wrong, as springing from indirection or obliquity; perverse; dishonest; corrupt; as, sinister aims.
Indicative of lurking evil or harm; boding covert danger;


slant ::: an inclined or oblique line or direction; as a slope of ground.

slantly ::: adv. --> In an inclined direction; obliquely; slopingly.

slope ::: v. i. --> An oblique direction; a line or direction including from a horizontal line or direction; also, sometimes, an inclination, as of one line or surface to another.
Any ground whose surface forms an angle with the plane of the horizon.
To take an oblique direction; to be at an angle with the plane of the horizon; to incline; as, the ground slopes.
To depart; to disappear suddenly.


southerliness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being southerly; direction toward the south.

south ::: n. --> That one of the four cardinal points directly opposite to the north; the region or direction to the right or direction to the right of a person who faces the east.
A country, region, or place situated farther to the south than another; the southern section of a country.
Specifically: That part of the United States which is south of Mason and Dixon&


southwardly ::: adv. --> In a southern direction.

southwest ::: n. --> The point of the compass equally from the south and the west; the southwest part or region. ::: a. --> Pertaining to, or in the direction of, the southwest; proceeding toward the southwest; coming from the southwest; as, a southwest wind.

Speech comes from the throat centre, but it is associated with whatever is the governing centre or level of the consciousness — wherever one thinks from. If one rises above the head, then thought takes place above the head and one can speak from there, that is to say, the direction of the speech is from there.

spirally ::: adv. --> In a spiral form, manner, or direction.

spiritoso ::: a. & adv. --> Spirited; spiritedly; -- a direction to perform a passage in an animated, lively manner.

split ::: imp. & p. p. --> of Split ::: v. t. --> To divide lengthwise; to separate from end to end, esp. by force; to divide in the direction of the grain layers; to rive; to cleave; as, to split a piece of timber or a board; to split a gem; to split a sheepskin.

spring ::: v. i. --> To leap; to bound; to jump.
To issue with speed and violence; to move with activity; to dart; to shoot.
To start or rise suddenly, as from a covert.
To fly back; as, a bow, when bent, springs back by its elastic power.
To bend from a straight direction or plane surface; to become warped; as, a piece of timber, or a plank, sometimes springs in


Sri Aurobindo: “The legend of the Tower of Babel speaks of the diversity of tongues as a curse laid on the race; but whatever its disadvantages, and they tend more and more to be minimised by the growth of civilisation and increasing intercourse, it has been rather a blessing than a curse, a gift to mankind rather than a disability laid upon it. The purposeless exaggeration of anything is always an evil, and an excessive pullulation of varying tongues that serve no purpose in the expression of a real diversity of spirit and culture is certainly a stumbling-block rather than a help: but this excess, though it existed in the past, is hardly a possibility of the future. The tendency is rather in the opposite direction. In former times diversity of language helped to create a barrier to knowledge and sympathy, was often made the pretext even of an actual antipathy and tended to a too rigid division. The lack of sufficient interpenetration kept up both a passive want of understanding and a fruitful crop of active misunderstandings. But this was an inevitable evil of a particular stage of growth, an exaggeration of the necessity that then existed for the vigorous development of strongly individualised group-souls in the human race. These disadvantages have not yet been abolished, but with closer intercourse and the growing desire of men and nations for the knowledge of each other’s thought and spirit and personality, they have diminished and tend to diminish more and more and there is no reason why in the end they should not become inoperative.” The Human Cycle. Babel-builders’.

srutivipratipanna ::: perplexed and confused. led in different directions by the sruti. [Gita 2.53]

staccato ::: a. --> Disconnected; separated; distinct; -- a direction to perform the notes of a passage in a short, distinct, and pointed manner. It is opposed to legato, and often indicated by heavy accents written over or under the notes, or by dots when the performance is to be less distinct and emphatic.
Expressed in a brief, pointed manner.


steadfast ::: 1. Fixed in intensity or direction; steady; (said esp. of a person"s gaze). 2. Firmly placed or fixed; stable in position or equilibrium.

straggler ::: n. --> One who straggles, or departs from the direct or proper course, or from the company to which he belongs; one who falls behind the rest; one who rambles without any settled direction.
A roving vagabond.
Something that shoots, or spreads out, beyond the rest, or too far; an exuberant growth.
Something that stands alone or by itself.


Straight line – The shortest distance between two points. It continues indefinitely in both directions.

stress ::: n. --> Distress.
Pressure, strain; -- used chiefly of immaterial things; except in mechanics; hence, urgency; importance; weight; significance.
The force, or combination of forces, which produces a strain; force exerted in any direction or manner between contiguous bodies, or parts of bodies, and taking specific names according to its direction, or mode of action, as thrust or pressure, pull or tension, shear or tangential stress.


stretcher ::: n. --> One who, or that which, stretches.
A brick or stone laid with its longer dimension in the line of direction of the wall.
A piece of timber used in building.
A narrow crosspiece of the bottom of a boat against which a rower braces his feet.
A crosspiece placed between the sides of a boat to keep them apart when hoisted up and griped.


stretch ::: n. 1. A continuous length, distance, tract, or expanse. stretches. v. 2. To extend (oneself or one"s limbs, for example) to full length. 3. To reach for something as by putting forth the hand. 4. To strain, by pressing forward with effort. 5. To extend over a distance or area or in a particular direction (often with out). 6. To extend in time. 7. To extend laterally. stretches, stretched, stretching.

stroke ::: 1. The act or an instance of striking, as with the hand, a weapon, or a tool; a blow or impact. 2. A blow struck at an object; e.g. with a hammer, axe, etc. 3. An act of hitting, or the blow given; also said of divine retribution. 4. A movement or mark made in one direction by a pen, pencil, paintbrush etc. 5. A single complete movement, esp. one continuously repeated in some process. strokes.

struck ::: pt. and Pp. of Strike. 1. Produced (music, a sound, note) by touching a string or playing upon an instrument; sounded (a particular note). 2. Proceeded or advanced, esp. in a new direction. 3. Produced or sent down roots (of a plant). struck out.** Produced or elicited as by a blow or stroke.

sucking ::: drawing (water, air, etc.) in some direction, esp. by producing a vacuum.

sunwards ::: toward the sun; in the direction of the sun.

swing ::: n. 1. A seat suspended from above by means of a loop of rope or between ropes or rods, on which one may sit and swing to and fro for recreation. 2. The act, manner, or progression of swinging; movement in alternate directions or in a particular direction. 3. The act or an instance of swinging; movement back and forth or in one particular direction. v. 4. To move in alternate directions or in either direction around a point, an axis, or a line of support, as a gate on its hinges. 5. To move back and forth suspended or as if suspended from above. Swung.

tacet ::: v.impers. --> It is silent; -- a direction for a vocal or instrumental part to be silent during a whole movement.

tag ::: n. --> Any slight appendage, as to an article of dress; something slight hanging loosely; specifically, a direction card, or label.
A metallic binding, tube, or point, at the end of a string, or lace, to stiffen it.
The end, or catchword, of an actor&


tangential ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a tangent; in the direction of a tangent.

tangentially ::: adv. --> In the direction of a tangent.

tardo ::: a. --> Slow; -- a direction to perform a passage slowly. ::: n. --> A sloth.

tendency ::: n. --> Direction or course toward any place, object, effect, or result; drift; causal or efficient influence to bring about an effect or result.

tend ::: to go or move (in a particular direction; esp. towards something. tends, tending.

tension ::: a. --> The act of stretching or straining; the state of being stretched or strained to stiffness; the state of being bent strained; as, the tension of the muscles, tension of the larynx.
Fig.: Extreme strain of mind or excitement of feeling; intense effort.
The degree of stretching to which a wire, cord, piece of timber, or the like, is strained by drawing it in the direction of its length; strain.


tensor ::: n. --> A muscle that stretches a part, or renders it tense.
The ratio of one vector to another in length, no regard being had to the direction of the two vectors; -- so called because considered as a stretching factor in changing one vector into another. See Versor.


:::   "The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that being omniscient his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual"s desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important.

“The efficacy of prayer is often doubted and prayer itself supposed to be a thing irrational and necessarily superfluous and ineffective. It is true that the universal will executes always its aim and cannot be deflected by egoistic propitiation and entreaty, it is true of the Transcendent who expresses himself in the universal order that being omniscient his larger knowledge must foresee the thing to be done and it does not need direction or stimulation by human thought and that the individual’s desires are not and cannot be in any world-order the true determining factor. But neither is that order or the execution of the universal will altogether effected by mechanical Law, but by powers and forces of which for human life at least human will, aspiration and faith are not among the least important. The Synthesis of Yoga

theocracy ::: n. --> Government of a state by the immediate direction or administration of God; hence, the exercise of political authority by priests as representing the Deity.
The state thus governed, as the Hebrew commonwealth before it became a kingdom.


theocratical ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to a theocracy; administred by the immediate direction of God; as, the theocratical state of the Israelites.

thermotension ::: n. --> A process of increasing the strength of wrought iron by heating it to a determinate temperature, and giving to it, while in that state, a mechanical strain or tension in the direction in which the strength is afterward to be exerted.

“The will of man works in the ignorance by a partial light or more often flickerings of light which mislead as much as they illuminate. His mind is an ignorance striving to erect standards of knowledge, his will an ignorance striving to erect standards of right, and his whole mentality as a result very much a house divided against itself, idea in conflict with idea, the will often in conflict with the ideal of right or the intellectual knowledge. The will itself takes different shapes, the will of the intelligence, the wishes of the emotional mind, the desires and the passion of the vital being, the impulsions and blind or half-blind compulsions of the nervous and the subconscient nature, and all these make by no means a harmony, but at best a precarious concord among discords. The will of the mind and life is a stumbling about in search of right force, right Tapas which can wholly be attained in its true and complete light and direction only by oneness with the spiritual and supramental being.” The Synthesis of Yoga

thitherward ::: adv. --> To ward that place; in that direction.

time-table ::: n. --> A tabular statement of the time at which, or within which, several things are to take place, as the recitations in a school, the departure and arrival of railroad trains or other public conveyances, the rise and fall of the tides, etc.
A plane surface divided in one direction with lines representing hours and minutes, and in the other with lines representing miles, and having diagonals (usually movable strings) representing the speed and position of various trains.


toponomy ::: n. --> The designation of position and direction.

to ::: prep. --> The preposition to primarily indicates approach and arrival, motion made in the direction of a place or thing and attaining it, access; and also, motion or tendency without arrival; movement toward; -- opposed to from.
Hence, it indicates motion, course, or tendency toward a time, a state or condition, an aim, or anything capable of being regarded as a limit to a tendency, movement, or action; as, he is going to a trade; he is rising to wealth and honor.


torsion ::: n. --> The act of turning or twisting, or the state of being twisted; the twisting or wrenching of a body by the exertion of a lateral force tending to turn one end or part of it about a longitudinal axis, while the other is held fast or turned in the opposite direction.
That force with which a thread, wire, or rod of any material, returns, or tends to return, to a state of rest after it has been twisted; torsibility.


tortuous ::: a. --> Bent in different directions; wreathed; twisted; winding; as, a tortuous train; a tortuous train; a tortuous leaf or corolla.
Fig.: Deviating from rectitude; indirect; erroneous; deceitful.
Injurious: tortious.
Oblique; -- applied to the six signs of the zodiac (from Capricorn to Gemini) which ascend most rapidly and obliquely.


toss ::: n. 1. A rolling or pitching motion. v. 2. To throw upward of in a certain direction. 3. To fling or be flung about, esp. constantly or regularly in an agitated or violent way. 4. To throw with a light motion. 5. To be thrown here and there; be flung to and fro. 6. To throw, fling, or heave continuously about; pitch to and fro. tosses, tossed, laugh-tossed.

towards ::: prep. --> In the direction of; to.
With direction to, in a moral sense; with respect or reference to; regarding; concerning.
Tending to; in the direction of; in behalf of.
Near; about; approaching to. ::: adv.


transverse ::: a. --> Lying or being across, or in a crosswise direction; athwart; -- often opposed to longitudinal. ::: n. --> Anything that is transverse or athwart.
The longer, or transverse, axis of an ellipse.


traverse ::: a. --> Lying across; being in a direction across something else; as, paths cut with traverse trenches.
Anything that traverses, or crosses.
Something that thwarts, crosses, or obstructs; a cross accident; as, he would have succeeded, had it not been for unlucky traverses not under his control.
A barrier, sliding door, movable screen, curtain, or the like.


tremando ::: a. --> Trembling; -- used as a direction to perform a passage with a general shaking of the whole chord.

trend ::: v. i. --> To have a particular direction; to run; to stretch; to tend; as, the shore of the sea trends to the southwest. ::: v. t. --> To cause to turn; to bend.
To cleanse, as wool.


trichroism ::: n. --> The quality possessed by some crystals of presenting different colors in three different directions.

tricurvate ::: a. --> Curved in three directions; as, a tricurvate spicule (see Illust. of Spicule).

trident ::: n. --> A kind of scepter or spear with three prongs, -- the common attribute of Neptune.
A three-pronged spear or goad, used for urging horses; also, the weapon used by one class of gladiators.
A three-pronged fish spear.
A curve of third order, having three infinite branches in one direction and a fourth infinite branch in the opposite direction.


tridimensional ::: a. --> Having three dimensions; extended in three different directions.

turn back. **To reverse one"s position so as to face (and, usually, go) in the opposite direction; to turn and go back.

turning ::: n. 1. A movement in a new direction. Also fig. **2.** A deviation from a straight course; a turn.

turntable ::: n. --> A large revolving platform, for turning railroad cars, locomotives, etc., in a different direction; -- called also turnplate.

turn ::: v. **1. To cause to move around an axis or center; cause to rotate or revolve. 2. To direct or set one"s course toward, away from, or in a particular direction. 3. To change direction, as at a bend or curve. 4. To direct the face or gaze toward or away from someone or something. 5. To channel one"s attention, interest, or thought toward or away from something. 6. To direct one"s thought, attention, interest, desire, effort, etc. toward or away from someone or something. 7. To change the position (esp. the body) from side to side or back and forth. 8. To change or cause to change one"s attitude so as to become hostile or to retaliate. 9. To direct or bring to bear in the way of opposition; to proceed to use against. 10. To cause to go in a specific direction; direct. 11. To change or convert or be changed or converted to change or convert or be changed or converted; transform. 12. To apply to some use or purpose; to make use of, employ. 13. To twist, bend, or distort in shape. turns, turned, turning, fate-turned.* *n. 14. The act of turning or the condition of being turned; rotation or revolution. 15. An act or instance of changing or reversing the course or direction, or a place or point at which such a change occurs. 16. Course; direction. 17. Requirement, need, exigency; purpose, use, convenience. 18. A change in affairs, conditions, or circumstances; vicissitude; revolution; esp. a change for better or worse, or the like, at a crisis; hence, sometimes, the time at which such a change takes place. Often fig. 19. A propensity or adeptness. 20. The place, point, or time or occasion at which a deviation or change occurs. turns.

turn ::: v. t. --> To cause to move upon a center, or as if upon a center; to give circular motion to; to cause to revolve; to cause to move round, either partially, wholly, or repeatedly; to make to change position so as to present other sides in given directions; to make to face otherwise; as, to turn a wheel or a spindle; to turn the body or the head.
To cause to present a different side uppermost or outmost; to make the upper side the lower, or the inside to be the outside of;


tutti ::: n. pl. --> All; -- a direction for all the singers or players to perform together.

undercurrent ::: n. --> A current below the surface of water, sometimes flowing in a contrary direction to that on the surface.
Hence, figuratively, a tendency of feeling, opinion, or the like, in a direction contrary to what is publicly shown; an unseen influence or tendency; as, a strong undercurrent of sentiment in favor of a prisoner. ::: a.


undirected ::: a. --> Not directed; not guided; left without direction.
Not addressed; not superscribed, as a letter.
Misdirected; misled; led astray.


up ::: adv. --> Aloft; on high; in a direction contrary to that of gravity; toward or in a higher place or position; above; -- the opposite of down.
From a lower to a higher position, literally or figuratively; as, from a recumbent or sitting position; from the mouth, toward the source, of a river; from a dependent or inferior condition; from concealment; from younger age; from a quiet state, or the like; -- used with verbs of motion expressed or implied.


upcountry ::: adv. --> In an upcountry direction; as, to live upcountry. ::: a. --> Living or situated remote from the seacoast; as, an upcountry residence. ::: n.

uprise ::: v. i. --> To rise; to get up; to appear from below the horizon.
To have an upward direction or inclination. ::: n. --> The act of rising; appearance above the horizon; rising.


up-train ::: --> A train going in the direction of the metropolis or the main terminus.
A train going in the direction conventionally called up.


upwards ::: adv. --> In a direction from lower to higher; toward a higher place; in a course toward the source or origin; -- opposed to downward; as, to tend or roll upward.
In the upper parts; above.
Yet more; indefinitely more; above; over.


vagabond ::: a. --> Moving from place to place without a settled habitation; wandering.
Floating about without any certain direction; driven to and fro.
Being a vagabond; strolling and idle or vicious. ::: n.


vagrant ::: a. --> Moving without certain direction; wandering; erratic; unsettled.
Wandering from place to place without any settled habitation; as, a vagrant beggar. ::: n. --> One who strolls from place to place; one who has no


valley ::: n. --> The space inclosed between ranges of hills or mountains; the strip of land at the bottom of the depressions intersecting a country, including usually the bed of a stream, with frequently broad alluvial plains on one or both sides of the stream. Also used figuratively.
The place of meeting of two slopes of a roof, which have their plates running in different directions, and form on the plan a reentrant angle.


vector ::: n. --> Same as Radius vector.
A directed quantity, as a straight line, a force, or a velocity. Vectors are said to be equal when their directions are the same their magnitudes equal. Cf. Scalar.


veer ::: v. i. --> To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north. ::: v. t. --> To direct to a different course; to turn; to wear; as, to veer, or wear, a vessel.

veldts ::: Jhumur: “Veldts are huge endless grasslands in South Africa, vast empty spaces. Perhaps in the early centuries there was no direction, no path, no clear-cut line…if I follow this path I am going to come out. You get lost. Because destiny is a force that pushes man as long as he doesn’t push destiny. When he becomes supremely conscious he can control his destiny. Otherwise he is at the mercy of all these forces and it is this that creates the whole chain of causality.”

ventro- ::: --> A combining form used in anatomy to indicate connection with, or relation to, the abdomen; also, connection with, relation to, or direction toward, the ventral side; as, ventrolateral; ventro-inguinal.

version ::: n. --> A change of form, direction, or the like; transformation; conversion; turning.
A condition of the uterus in which its axis is deflected from its normal position without being bent upon itself. See Anteversion, and Retroversion.
The act of translating, or rendering, from one language into another language.
A translation; that which is rendered from another


vertically ::: adv. --> In a vertical manner, position, or direction; perpendicularly; as, to look down vertically; to raise a thing vertically.

vertigo ::: n. --> Dizziness or swimming of the head; an affection of the head in which objects, though stationary, appear to move in various directions, and the person affected finds it difficult to maintain an erect posture; giddiness.
Any one of numerous species of small land snails belonging to the genus Vertigo, having an elongated or conical spiral shell and usually teeth in the aperture.


vibration ::: n. --> The act of vibrating, or the state of being vibrated, or in vibratory motion; quick motion to and fro; oscillation, as of a pendulum or musical string.
A limited reciprocating motion of a particle of an elastic body or medium in alternately opposite directions from its position of equilibrium, when that equilibrium has been disturbed, as when a stretched cord or other body produces musical notes, or particles of air transmit sounds to the ear. The path of the particle


vigoroso ::: a. & adv. --> Vigorous; energetic; with energy; -- a direction to perform a passage with energy and force.

virya (virya; viryam) ::: strength of character; "the energy of the divine virya temperament expressing itself in the fourfold type of the chaturvarnya"(see caturvarn.ya), the first member of the sakti catus.t.aya, consisting of the dynamic force "of the temperament, character and soul nature, svabhava, which makes the power of our members effective in action and gives them their type and direction"; heroism, an attribute of Balarama; the virile energy carried to the head by udana.

vivace ::: a. & adv. --> Brisk; vivacious; with spirit; -- a direction to perform a passage in a brisk and lively manner.

warp ::: v. t. --> To throw; hence, to send forth, or throw out, as words; to utter.
To turn or twist out of shape; esp., to twist or bend out of a flat plane by contraction or otherwise.
To turn aside from the true direction; to cause to bend or incline; to pervert.
To weave; to fabricate.
To tow or move, as a vessel, with a line, or warp,


wave ::: v. t. --> See Waive.
To move one way and the other; to brandish.
To raise into inequalities of surface; to give an undulating form a surface to.
To move like a wave, or by floating; to waft.
To call attention to, or give a direction or command to, by a waving motion, as of the hand; to signify by waving; to beckon; to signal; to indicate.


way ::: 1. A road, path, or highway affording passage from one place to another. Also fig. 2. Any line of passage or progression, esp. in a particular direction. 3. A direction or vicinity. 4. A course of life, action, or experience. 5. A prescribed course of life or conduct; also in pl. 6. A method, plan, or means for attaining a goal. 7. A method, plan, or means for attaining a goal. 8. Space for passing or advancing. 9. Characteristic or habitual manner. 10. Distance. ways, earth-ways, half-way, world-ways, Angel of the Way, evolving Way, heavenly Way, middle Way, shining upward Way, terrestrial Way, the Way.

weathercock ::: n. --> A vane, or weather vane; -- so called because originally often in the figure of a cock, turning on the top of a spire with the wind, and showing its direction.
Hence, any thing or person that turns easily and frequently; one who veers with every change of current opinion; a fickle, inconstant person. ::: v. t.


western ::: a. --> Of or pertaining to the west; situated in the west, or in the region nearly in the direction of west; being in that quarter where the sun sets; as, the western shore of France; the western ocean.
Moving toward the west; as, a ship makes a western course; coming from the west; as, a western breeze.


west ::: n. --> The point in the heavens where the sun is seen to set at the equinox; or, the corresponding point on the earth; that one of the four cardinal points of the compass which is in a direction at right angles to that of north and south, and on the left hand of a person facing north; the point directly opposite to east.
A country, or region of country, which, with regard to some other country or region, is situated in the direction toward the west.
The Westen hemisphere, or the New World so called, it having


westward ::: in a direction, point, or region towards the west.

westwardly ::: adv. --> In a westward direction.

whitherward ::: adv. --> In what direction; toward what or which place.

wideness ::: n. --> The quality or state of being wide; breadth; width; great extent from side to side; as, the wideness of a room.
Large extent in all directions; broadness; greatness; as, the wideness of the sea or ocean.


wide ::: superl. --> Having considerable distance or extent between the sides; spacious across; much extended in a direction at right angles to that of length; not narrow; broad; as, wide cloth; a wide table; a wide highway; a wide bed; a wide hall or entry.
Having a great extent every way; extended; spacious; broad; vast; extensive; as, a wide plain; the wide ocean; a wide difference.
Of large scope; comprehensive; liberal; broad; as, wide


will, human ::: Sri Aurobindo: "The will of man works in the ignorance by a partial light or more often flickerings of light which mislead as much as they illuminate. His mind is an ignorance striving to erect standards of knowledge, his will an ignorance striving to erect standards of right, and his whole mentality as a result very much a house divided against itself, idea in conflict with idea, the will often in conflict with the ideal of right or the intellectual knowledge. The will itself takes different shapes, the will of the intelligence, the wishes of the emotional mind, the desires and the passion of the vital being, the impulsions and blind or half-blind compulsions of the nervous and the subconscient nature, and all these make by no means a harmony, but at best a precarious concord among discords. The will of the mind and life is a stumbling about in search of right force, right Tapas which can wholly be attained in its true and complete light and direction only by oneness with the spiritual and supramental being.” *The Synthesis of Yoga

wind ::: 1. To have or follow a circular or spiral course or direction. 2. To change direction; bend; turn; take a frequently bending course. 3. Fig. To coil or twine about something. winds.

wryneck ::: n. --> A twisted or distorted neck; a deformity in which the neck is drawn to one side by a rigid contraction of one of the muscles of the neck; torticollis.
Any one of several species of Old World birds of the genus Jynx, allied to the woodpeckers; especially, the common European species (J. torguilla); -- so called from its habit of turning the neck around in different directions. Called also cuckoo&


wry ::: v. t. --> To cover. ::: superl. --> Turned to one side; twisted; distorted; as, a wry mouth.
Hence, deviating from the right direction; misdirected; out of place; as, wry words.
Wrested; perverted.




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1:The true state of things is not to be found in one direction alone. ~ Dogen Zenji?,
2:Never underestimate the power you have to take your life in a new direction." ~ Germany Kent,
3:Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes. ~ Shunryu Suzuki,
4:Wet with morning dew
I go in the direction I want ~ Santoka Taneda,
5:Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
   ~ Zig Ziglar,
6:Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
   ~ Franz Kafka,
7:Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking together in the same direction." ~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery,
8:The remembrance of God is like a flame. In whichever direction it is blown, it will burn up whatever lies in its way. ~ Anandamayi Ma,
9: one and single direction is needed which will conduct us to a one sole end. ~ Philo, the Eternal Wisdom
10:in which direction are
the hidden footprints
in the autumn night
~ Buson, @BashoSociety
11:The pure intellectual direction travels away from life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Personality,
12:Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.
   ~ Steve Pavlina,
13:The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience. ~ Mingyur Rinpoche,
14:Know that the World of Unity lies in the other direction from the senses. If you want Oneness, go in that direction! ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,
15:As you turn the direction of the wicked mind, that mind itself will be able to grasp the Chosen Deity. It is the pure mind which shows man the path. ~ Sri Sarada Devi,
16:God is constantly at work in the mind, endowing it with its natural light and giving it direction ~ Saint Thomas Aquinas, (DT 1.1ad6).,
17:The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
18:Your path may be different to your family, friends, and country. But despite what they may think, it does not mean that you are going in the wrong direction. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,
19:A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
20:And crying for a direction in the void
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, 02.06,
21:The speed and distance that you travel on the path is determined by the level of your courage to go in the opposite direction from what you have been doing since beginningless time. ~ Chamtrul Rinpoche,
22:There is such a thing as abhyasayoga, yoga through practice. Keep up the practice and you will find that your mind will follow in whatever direction you lead it. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
23:My native land is all lands,
In no particular direction.
My monastery is the solitary mountains,
In no particular place.
My family is all the beings of the six realms.
My name is "Hermit Protected by the Three Jewels. ~ Shabkar,
24:If you understand clearly that the Lord is the highest, then nothing will frighten or discourage you, but all your senses will run in the direction of the Supreme, and both your mind and your senses will help you reach Him. ~ Swami Ramakrishnananda,
25:As all religions and philosophies point to the Supreme but each in a different direction, so all medical fashions are ways to health—though they don't always reach it. ~ Sri Aurobindo, Letters on Yoga - IV, Doctors and Medicines,
26:The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness. ~ Sri Ramakrishna,
27:Many objects of temptation are there in front of you, and the mind is a rascal. No matter how much you educate it, it will run only in that direction. How many have the power to stop that? So it is best to stay away from the objects of temptations. ~ Swami Adbhutananda,
28:If anyone - superior or inferior - comes to hinder your practice, you should be unshakable, like an iron boulder pulled by a silk scarf. It won't do to be a weak character whose head bends in whichever direction the wind blows, like grass on a mountain pass. ~ Dudjom Rinpoche,
29:At each moment may our attitude be such that the Divine's Will determines our choice so that the Divine may give the direction to all our life.
   ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother II, Elements of Yoga, Surrender to the Divine Will, To Will What the Divine Wills,
30:Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility-these three forces are the very nerve of education. ~ Rudolf Steiner,
31:As St. Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274) taught, whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say something, it can only be a pointer toward the Mystery that can never be articulated in words. All that words can do is point in the direction of the Mystery. ~ Thomas Keating, On Prayer,
32:Sometimes you get frightened as a camel
Sometimes you get stuck in the mud like hunted prey.
O young fool, how long will you keep running from yourself?
In the end, the thing will happen anyway.
Just go in the direction where there is no direction.
Go, search there. ~ Jalaluddin Rumi,
33:One must learn to hear and follow the voice of the inmost soul, the direction of the Guru, the command of the Master, the working of the Divine Mother. Whoever clings to the desires and weaknesses of the flesh, the cravings and passions of the vital in it ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - II,
34:They say an elephant never forgets. Well, you are not an elephant. Take notes, constantly. Save interesting thoughts, quotations, films, technologies...the medium doesn't matter, so long as it inspires you. When you're stumped, go to your notes like a wizard to his spellbook. Mash those thoughts together. Extend them in every direction until they meet. ~ Aaron Koblin,
35:The striking discoveries of contemporary science are continually telling us new things about how material creation came to be and how it continues to evolve. Although we do not have all the answers, we are clearly going in a direction that transcends the cosmology in which the great world religions came into existence. Our vision, understanding, and our attitudes about God inevitably must change. ~ Thomas Keating,
36:The danger of ceremonial magick-the subtlest and deepest danger-is this: that the Magician will naturally tend to invoke that partial being which most strongly appeals to him, so that his natural excess in that direction will be still further exaggerated. Let him, before beginning his Work, endeavour to map out his own being, and arrange his invocations in such a way as to redress the balance.
   ~ Aleister Crowley, Liber ABA,
37:Fantasy imposes order on the universe. Or, at least, it superimposes order on the universe. And it is a human order. Reality tells us that we exist for a brief, beleaguered span in a cold infinity; fantasy tells us that the figures in the foreground are important. Fantasy peoples the alien Outside, and it doesn't matter a whole lot if it peoples it with good guys or bad guys. Putting 'Hy-Brasil' on the map is a step in the right direction, but if you can't manage that, then 'Here Be Dragons is better than nothing. Better than the void. ~ Terry Pratchett,
38:Our struggle to put first things first can be characterized by the contrast between two powerful tools that direct us: the clock and the compass. The clock represents our commitments, appointments, schedules, goals, activities - what we do with, and how we manage our time. The compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction - what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. In an effort to close the gap between the clock and the compass in our lives, many of us turn to the field of "time management." ~ Stephen Covey,
39:Increasing knowledge is important, but we must also remember that we already know far more than we are willing or able to apply. The human race is not wandering in darkness without guidance or direction. It is not necessary to be universally enlightened in order to live a constructive code. The conflict is in the individual. He must decide for himself the degree to which he is willing to control and re-educate his own appetites and instincts. The inducements to per­sonality reorientation are real, evident, and undeniable. ~ Manly P. Hall, Horizon Magazine, Winter 1950, p. 16,
40:Everybody has certain ideals which determine the direction of his endeavors and his judgments. In this sense I have never looked upon ease and happiness as ends in themselves - such an ethical basis I call more proper for a herd of swine. The ideals which have lighted me on my way and time after time given me new courage to face life cheerfully, have been Truth, Goodness, and Beauty. Without the sense of fellowship with men of like mind, of preoccupation with the objective, the eternally unattainable in the field of art and scientific research, life would have seemed to me empty. ~ Albert Einstein,
41:But since it is from the Ignorance that we proceed to the Knowledge, we have had first to discover the secret nature and full extent of the Ignorance. If we look at this Ignorance in which ordinarily we live by the very circumstance of our separative existence in a material, in a spatial and temporal universe, we see that on its obscurer side it reduces itself, from whatever direction we look at or approach it, into the fact of a many-sided self-ignorance.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, Reality and the Integral Knowledge, The Knowledge and the Ignorance - The Spiritual Evolution,
42:Abandoning without exception all desires born of the will, controlling by the mind the senses in all directions, a man should gradually cease from mental action by the force of an understanding held in the grasp of a constant will; he should fix his mind in the self and think of nothing at all, and whenever the restless and mobile mentality ranges forth he should draw it back from whatever direction it takes and bring it again under control in the self alone: for when the mind has thus been quieted, there comes to man the highest peace. ~ Bhagavad Gita. VI. 24-26, the Eternal Wisdom
43:The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far. The sciences, each straining in its own direction, have hitherto harmed us little; but some day the piecing together of dissociated knowledge will open up such terrifying vistas of reality, and of our frightful position therein, that we shall either go mad from the revelation or flee from the deadly light into the peace and safety of a new dark age.
   ~ H P Lovecraft, The Call Of Cthulhu,
44:the soul's seemingly magical influence :::
If you have within you a psychic being sufficiently awake to watch over you, to prepare your path, it can draw towards you things which help you, draw people, books, circumstances, all sorts of little coincidences which come to you as though brought by some benevolent will and give you an indication, a help, a support to take decisions and turn you in the right direction. But once you have taken this decision, once you have decided to find the truth of your being, once you start sincerely on the road, everything seems to conspire to help you to advance,
   ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1950-1951,
45:the best we can conceive as the thing to be done :::
   The work itself is at first determined by the best light we can command in our ignorance. It is that which we conceive as the thing that should be done. And whether it be shaped by our sense of duty, by our feeling for our fellow-creatures, by our idea of what is for the good of others or the good of the world or by the direction of one whom we accept as a human Master, wiser than ourselves and for us the representative of that Lord of all works in whom we believe but whom we do not yet know, the principle is the same. The essential of the sacrifice of works must be there and the essential is the surrender of all desire for the fruit of our works, the renunciation of all attachment to the result for which yet we labour. For so long as we work with attachment to the result, the sacrifice is offered not to the Divine, but to our ego...
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Equality and the Annihilation of Ego,
46:Even on Earth, the first steps in this direction had been taken. There were millions of men, doomed in earlier ages, who now lived active and happy lives thanks to artificial limbs, kidneys, lungs, and hearts. To this process there could be only one conclusion - however far off it might be.

And eventually even the brain might go. As the seat of consciousness, It was not essential; the development of electronic intelligence had proved that. The conflict between mind and machine might be resolved at last in the eternal truce of complete symbiosis.

But was even this the end? A few mystically inclined biologists went still further. They speculated, taking their cues from the beliefs of many religions, that mind would eventually free itself from matter. The robot body, like the flesh-and-blood one, would be no more than a stepping-stone to something which, long ago, men bad called "spirit."

And if there was anything beyond that, its name could only be God.
   ~ Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey,
47:A word that rose to honor at the time of the Renaissance, and that summarized in advance the whole program of modern civilization is 'humanism'. Men were indeed concerned to reduce everything to purely human proportions, to eliminate every principle of a higher order, and, one might say, symbolically to turn away from the heavens under pretext of conquering the earth; the Greeks, whose example they claimed to follow, had never gone as far in this direction, even at the time of their greatest intellectual decadence, and with them utilitarian considerations had at least never claimed the first place, as they were very soon to do with the moderns. Humanism was form of what has subsequently become contemporary secularism; and, owing to its desire to reduce everything to the measure of man as an end in himself, modern civilization has sunk stage by stage until it has reached the level of the lowest elements in man and aims at little more than satisfying the needs inherent in the material side of his nature, an aim that is in any case quite illusory since it constantly creates more artificial needs than it can satisfy. ~ Rene Guenon, The Crisis of the Modern World
48:Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. There's no sun there, no moon, no direction, no sense of time. Just fine white sand swirling up into the sky like pulverized bones. That's the kind of sandstorm you need to imagine.

An you really will have to make it through that violent, metaphysical, symbolic storm. No matter how metaphysical or symbolic it might be, make no mistake about it: it will cut through flesh like a thousand razor blades. People will bleed there, and you will bleed too. Hot, red blood. You'll catch that blood in your hands, your own blood and the blood of others.

And once the storm is over you won't remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won't even be sure, in fact, whether the storm is really oveR But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm you won't be the same person who walked in. That's what this storm's all about.~ Haruki Murakami,
49:Karma Yoga, the Path of Works; :::
   The Path of Works aims at the dedication of every human activity to the supreme Will. It begins by the renunciation of all egoistic aim for our works, all pursuit of action for an interested aim or for the sake of a worldly result. By this renunciation it so purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy. To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities. Karmayoga is used, like the other paths, to lead to liberation from phenomenal existence and a departure into the Supreme. But here too the exclusive result is not inevitable. The end of the path may be, equally, a perception of the divine in all energies, in all happenings, in all activities, and a free and unegoistic participation of the soul in the cosmic action. So followed it will lead to the elevation of all human will and activity to the divine level, its spiritualisation and the justification of the cosmic labour towards freedom, power and perfection in the human being.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Conditions of the Synthesis, The Systems of Yoga, 39,
50:Instruction about Sadhana to a disciple:
   Disciple: What is the nature of realisation in this yoga?
   Sri Aurobindo: In this yoga we want to bring down the Truth-consciousness into the whole being - no part being left out. This can be done by the Higher Power itself. What you have to do is to open yourself to it.
   Disciple: As the Higher Power is there why does it not work in all men - consciously?
   Sri Aurobindo: Because man, at present, is shut up in his mental being, his vital nature and physical consciousness and their limitations. You have to open yourself. By an opening I mean an aspiration in the heart for the coming down of the Power that is above, and a will in the Mind, or above the Mind, open to it.
   The first thing this working of the Higher Power does is to establish Shanti - peace - in all the parts of the being and an opening above. This peace is not mere mental Shanti, it is full of power and, whatever action takes place in it, Samata, equality, is its basis and the Shanti and Samata are never disturbed. What comes from Above is peace, power and joy. It also brings about changes in various parts of our nature so that they can bear the pressure of the Higher Power.
   Knowledge also progressively develops showing all in our being that is to be thrown out and what is to be retained. In fact, knowledge and guidance both come and you have constantly to consent to the guidance. The progress may be more in one direction than in another. But it is the Higher Power that works. The rest is a matter of experience and the movement of the Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, EVENING TALKS WITH SRI AUROBINDO, RECORDED BY A B PURANI (28-09-1923),
51:There is one point in particular I would like to single out and stress, namely, the notion of evolution. It is common to assume that one of the doctrines of the perennial philosophy... is the idea of involution-evolution. That is, the manifest world was created as a "fall" or "breaking away" from the Absolute (involution), but that all things are now returning to the Absolute (via evolution). In fact, the doctrine of progressive temporal return to Source (evolution) does not appear anywhere, according to scholars as Joseph Campbell, until the axial period (i.e. a mere two thousand years ago). And even then, the idea was somewhat convoluted and backwards. The doctrine of the yugas, for example, sees the world as proceeding through various stages of development, but the direction is backward: yesterday was the Golden Age, and time ever since has been a devolutionary slide downhill, resulting in the present-day Kali-Yuga. Indeed, this notion of a historical fall from Eden was ubiquitous during the axial period; the idea that we are, at this moment, actually evolving toward Spirit was simply not conceived in any sort of influential fashion.

But sometime during the modern era-it is almost impossible to pinpoint exactly-the idea of history as devolution (or a fall from God) was slowly replaced by the idea of history as evolution (or a growth towards God). We see it explicitly in Schelling (1775-1854); Hegel (1770-1831) propounded the doctrine with a genius rarely equaled; Herbert Spencer (1820-1903) made evolution a universal law, and his friend Charles Darwin (1809-1882) applied it to biology. We find it next appearing in Aurobindo (1872-1950), who gave perhaps its most accurate and profound spiritual context, and Pierre Teilhard de Chardin (1881-1955) who made it famous in the West.

But here is my point: we might say that the idea of evolution as return-to-Spirit is part of the perennial philosophy, but the idea itself, in any adequate form, is no more than a few hundred years old. It might be 'ancient' as timeless, but it is certainly not ancient as "old."...

This fundamental shift in the sense or form of the perennial philosophy-as represented in, say, Aurobindo, Hegel, Adi Da, Schelling, Teilhard de Chardin, Radhakrishnan, to name a few-I should like to call the "neoperennial philosophy." ~ Ken Wilber, The Eye Of Spirit,
52:higher mind or late vision logic ::: Even more rare, found stably in less than 1% of the population and even more emergent is the turquoise altitude.

Cognition at Turquoise is called late vision-logic or cross-paradigmatic and features the ability to connect meta-systems or paradigms, with other meta-systems. This is the realm of coordinating principles. Which are unified systems of systems of abstraction to other principles. ... Aurobindo indian sage and philosopher offers a more first-person account of turquoise which he called higher-mind, a unitarian sense of being with a powerful multiple dynamism capable of formation of a multitude of aspects of knowledge, ways of action, forms and significances of becoming of all of which a spontaneous inherient knowledge.

Self-sense at turquoise is called Construct-aware and is the first stage of Cook-Greuter's extension of Loveigers work on ego-development. The Construct-aware stage sees individuals for the first time as exploring more and more complex thought-structures with awareness of the automatic nature of human map making and absurdities which unbridaled complexity and logical argumentation can lead. Individuals at this stage begin to see their ego as a central point of reference and therefore a limit to growth. They also struggle to balance unique self-expressions and their concurrent sense of importance, the imperical and intuitive knowledge that there is no fundamental subject-object separation and the budding awareness of self-identity as temporary which leads to a decreased ego-desire to create a stable self-identity. Turquoise individuals are keenly aware of the interplay between awareness, thought, action and effects. They seek personal and spiritual transformation and hold a complex matrix of self-identifications, the adequecy of which they increasingly call into question. Much of this already points to Turquoise values which embrace holistic and intuitive thinking and alignment to universal order in a conscious fashion.

Faith at Turquoise is called Universalising and can generate faith compositions in which conceptions of Ultimate Reality start to include all beings. Individuals at Turquoise faith dedicate themselves to transformation of present reality in the direction of transcendent actuality. Both of these are preludes to the coming of Third Tier. ~ Essential Integral, L4.1-54, Higher Mind,
53:complexity of the human constitution :::
   There is another direction in which the ordinary practice of Yoga arrives at a helpful but narrowing simplification which is denied to the Sadhaka of the integral aim. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being, the stimulating but also embarrassing multiplicity of our personality, the rich endless confusion of Nature. To the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking surface, ignorant of the self's depths and vastnesses behind the veil, his psychological existence is fairly simple. A small but clamorous company of desires, some imperative intellectual and aesthetic cravings, some tastes, a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill-connected and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical health and disease, a scattered and inconsequent succession of joys and griefs, frequent minor disturbances and vicissitudes and rarer strong searchings and upheavals of mind or body, and through it all Nature, partly with the aid of his thought and will, partly without or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order, -- this is the material of his existence. The average human being even now is in his inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone primitive man in his outward life. But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, -- and Yoga means a plunge into all the multiple profundities of' the soul, -- we find ourselves subjectively, as man in his growth has found himself objectively, surrounded by a whole complex world which we have to know and to conquer.
   The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, Self-Consecration, 74-75,
54:But even before that highest approach to identity is achieved, something of the supreme Will can manifest in us as an imperative impulsion, a God-driven action; we then act by a spontaneous self-determining Force but a fuller knowledge of meaning and aim arises only afterwards. Or the impulse to action may come as an inspiration or intuition, but rather in the heart and body than in the mind; here an effective sight enters in but the complete and exact knowledge is still deferred and comes, if at all, lateR But the divine Will may descend too as a luminous single command or a total perception or a continuous current of perception of what is to be done into the will or into the thought or as a direction from above spontaneously fulfilled by the lower members. When the Yoga is imperfect, only some actions can be done in this way, or else a general action may so proceed but only during periods of exaltation and illumination. When the Yoga is perfect, all action becomes of this character. We may indeed distinguish three stages of a growing progress by which, first, the personal will is occasionally or frequently enlightened or moved by a supreme Will or conscious Force beyond it, then constantly replaced and, last, identified and merged in that divine Power-action. The first is the stage when we are still governed by the intellect, heart and senses; these have to seek or wait for the divine inspiration and guidance and do not always find or receive it. The second is the stage when human intelligence is more and more replaced by a high illumined or intuitive spiritualised mind, the external human heart by the inner psychic heart, the senses by a purified and selfless vital force. The third is the stage when we rise even above spiritualised mind to the supramental levels. In all three stages the fundamental character of the liberated action is the same, a spontaneous working of Prakriti no longer through or for the ego but at the will and for the enjoyment of the supreme Purusha. At a higher level this becomes the Truth of the absolute and universal Supreme expressed through the individual soul and worked out consciously through the nature, - no longer through a half-perception and a diminished or distorted effectuation by the stumbling, ignorant and all-deforming energy of lower nature in us but by the all-wise transcendent and universal Mother. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 218,
55:requirements for the psychic :::
   At a certain stage in the Yoga when the mind is sufficiently quieted and no longer supports itself at every step on the sufficiency of its mental certitudes, when the vital has been steadied and subdued and is no longer constantly insistent on its own rash will, demand and desire, when the physical has been sufficiently altered not to bury altogether the inner flame under the mass of its outwardness, obscurity or inertia, an inmost being hidden within and felt only in its rare influences is able to come forward and illumine the rest and take up the lead of the sadhana. Its character is a one-pointed orientation towards the Divine or the Highest, one-pointed and yet plastic in action and movement; it does not create a rigidity of direction like the one-pointed intellect or a bigotry of the regnant idea or impulse like the one-pointed vital force; it is at every moment and with a supple sureness that it points the way to the Truth, automatically distinguishes the right step from the false, extricates the divine or Godward movement from the clinging mixture of the undivine. Its action is like a searchlight showing up all that has to be changed in the nature; it has in it a flame of will insistent on perfection, on an alchemic transmutation of all the inner and outer existence. It sees the divine essence everywhere but rejects the mere mask and the disguising figure. It insists on Truth, on will and strength and mastery, on Joy and Love and Beauty, but on a Truth of abiding Knowledge that surpasses the mere practical momentary truth of the Ignorance, on an inward joy and not on mere vital pleasure, -- for it prefers rather a purifying suffering and sorrow to degrading satisfactions, -- on love winged upward and not tied to the stake of egoistic craving or with its feet sunk in the mire, on beauty restored to its priesthood of interpretation of the Eternal, on strength and will and mastery as instruments not of the ego but of the Spirit. Its will is for the divinisation of life, the expression through it of a higher Truth, its dedication to the Divine and the Eternal.
   But the most intimate character of the psychic is its pressure towards the Divine through a sacred love, joy and oneness. It is the divine Love that it seeks most, it is the love of the Divine that is its spur, its goal, its star of Truth shining over the luminous cave of the nascent or the still obscure cradle of the new-born godhead within us.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 1,
56:... one of the major personality traits was neuroticism, the tendency to feel negative emotion. He [Jung] never formalized that idea in his thinking. Its a great oversight in some sense because the capacity to experience negative emotion, when thats exaggerated that seems to be the core feature of everything we that we regard as psychopathology. Psychiatric and psychological illness. Not the only thing but its the primary factor. So.

Q: What is the best way to avoid falling back into nihilistic behaviours and thinking?
JBP:Well, a large part of that I would say is habit. The development and maintainance of good practices. Habits. If you find yourself desolute, neurotic, if your thought tends in the nihilistic direction and you tend to fall apart, organizing your life across multiple dimensions is a good antidote its not exactly thinking.
Do you have an intimate relationship? If not then well probably you could use one.
Do you have contact with close family members, siblings, children, parents, or even people who are more distantly related. If not, you probably need that.
Do you see your friends a couple of times a week? And do something social with them?
Do you have a way of productively using your time outside of employment?
Are you employed?
Do you have a good job? Or at least a job that is practically sufficient and enables you to work with people who you like working with? Even if the job itself is mundane or repetitive or difficult sometimes the relationships you establish in an employment situation like that can make the job worthwhile.
Have you regulated your response to temptations? Pornography, alcohol abuse, drug abuse, is that under control?

I would say differentiate the problem. Theres multiple dimensions of attainment, ambition, pleasure, responsibility all of that that make up a life, and to the degree that is it possible you want to optimize your functioning on as many of those dimensions as possible.
You might also organize your schedule to the degree that you have that capacity for discipline.
Do you get enough sleep?
Do you go to bed at a regular time?
Do you get up at a regular time?
Do you eat regularly and appropriately and enought and not too much?
Are your days and your weeks and your months characterized by some tolerable, repeatable structure? That helps you meet your responsibilities but also shields you from uncertainly and chaos and provides you with multiple sources of reward?
Those are all the questions decompose the problem into, the best way of avoiding falling into nihilistic behaviours and thinking. ~ Jordan B. Peterson, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-geMoCsNAw,
57:If this is the truth of works, the first thing the sadhaka has to do is to recoil from the egoistic forms of activity and get rid of the sense of an "I" that acts. He has to see and feel that everything happens in him by the plastic conscious or subconscious or sometimes superconscious automatism of his mental and bodily instruments moved by the forces of spiritual, mental, vital and physical Nature. There is a personality on his surface that chooses and wills, submits and struggles, tries to make good in Nature or prevail over Nature, but this personality is itself a construction of Nature and so dominated, driven, determined by her that it cannot be free. It is a formation or expression of the Self in her, - it is a self of Nature rather than a self of Self, his natural and processive, not his spiritual and permanent being, a temporary constructed personality, not the true immortal Person. It is that Person that he must become. He must succeed in being inwardly quiescent, detach himself as the observer from the outer active personality and learn the play of the cosmic forces in him by standing back from all blinding absorption in its turns and movements. Thus calm, detached, a student of himself and a witness of his nature, he realises that he is the individual soul who observes the works of Nature, accepts tranquilly her results and sanctions or withholds his sanction from the impulse to her acts. At present this soul or Purusha is little more than an acquiescent spectator, influencing perhaps the action and development of the being by the pressure of its veiled consciousness, but for the most part delegating its powers or a fragment of them to the outer personality, - in fact to Nature, for this outer self is not lord but subject to her, anı̄sa; but, once unveiled, it can make its sanction or refusal effective, become the master of the action, dictate sovereignly a change of Nature. Even if for a long time, as the result of fixed association and past storage of energy, the habitual movement takes place independent of the Purusha's assent and even if the sanctioned movement is persistently refused by Nature for want of past habit, still he will discover that in the end his assent or refusal prevails, - slowly with much resistance or quickly with a rapid accommodation of her means and tendencies she modifies herself and her workings in the direction indicated by his inner sight or volition. Thus he learns in place of mental control or egoistic will an inner spiritual control which makes him master of the Nature-forces that work in him and not their unconscious instrument or mechanic slave. Above and around him is the Shakti, the universal Mother and from her he can get all his inmost soul needs and wills if only he has a true knowledge of her ways and a true surrender to the divine Will in her. Finally, he becomes aware of that highest dynamic Self within him and within Nature which is the source of all his seeing and knowing, the source of the sanction, the source of the acceptance, the source of the rejection. This is the Lord, the Supreme, the One-in-all, Ishwara-Shakti, of whom his soul is a portion, a being of that Being and a power of that Power. The rest of our progress depends on our knowledge of the ways in which the Lord of works manifests his Will in the world and in us and executes them through the transcendent and universal Shakti. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Supreme Will, 216,
58:In the process of this change there must be by the very necessity of the effort two stages of its working. First, there will be the personal endeavour of the human being, as soon as he becomes aware by his soul, mind, heart of this divine possibility and turns towards it as the true object of life, to prepare himself for it and to get rid of all in him that belongs to a lower working, of all that stands in the way of his opening to the spiritual truth and its power, so as to possess by this liberation his spiritual being and turn all his natural movements into free means of its self-expression. It is by this turn that the self-conscious Yoga aware of its aim begins: there is a new awakening and an upward change of the life motive. So long as there is only an intellectual, ethical and other self-training for the now normal purposes of life which does not travel beyond the ordinary circle of working of mind, life and body, we are still only in the obscure and yet unillumined preparatory Yoga of Nature; we are still in pursuit of only an ordinary human perfection. A spiritual desire of the Divine and of the divine perfection, of a unity with him in all our being and a spiritual perfection in all our nature, is the effective sign of this change, the precursory power of a great integral conversion of our being and living. By personal effort a precursory change, a preliminary conversion can be effected; it amounts to a greater or less spiritualising of our mental motives, our character and temperament, and a mastery, stilling or changed action of the vital and physical life. This converted subjectivity can be made the base of some communion or unity of the soul in mind with the Divine and some partial reflection of the divine nature in the mentality of the human being. That is as far as man can go by his unaided or indirectly aided effort, because that is an effort of mind and mind cannot climb beyond itself permanently: at most it arises to a spiritualised and idealised mentality. If it shoots up beyond that border, it loses hold of itself, loses hold of life, and arrives either at a trance of absorption or a passivity. A greater perfection can only be arrived at by a higher power entering in and taking up the whole action of the being. The second stage of this Yoga will therefore be a persistent giving up of all the action of the nature into the hands of this greater Power, a substitution of its influence, possession and working for the personal effort, until the Divine to whom we aspire becomes the direct master of the Yoga and effects the entire spiritual and ideal conversion of the being. Two rules there are that will diminish the difficulty and obviate the danger. One must reject all that comes from the ego, from vital desire, from the mere mind and its presumptuous reasoning incompetence, all that ministers to these agents of the Ignorance. One must learn to hear and follow the voice of the inmost soul, the direction of the Guru, the command of the Master, the working of the Divine Mother. Whoever clings to the desires and weaknesses of the flesh, the cravings and passions of the vital in its turbulent ignorance, the dictates of his personal mind unsilenced and unillumined by a greater knowledge, cannot find the true inner law and is heaping obstacles in the way of the divine fulfilment. Whoever is able to detect and renounce those obscuring agencies and to discern and follow the true Guide within and without will discover the spiritual law and reach the goal of the Yoga. A radical and total change of consciousness is not only the whole meaning but, in an increasing force and by progressive stages, the whole method of the integral Yoga.
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Yoga of Self-Perfection, The Integral Perfection [618],
59:Reading list (1972 edition)[edit]
1. Homer - Iliad, Odyssey
2. The Old Testament
3. Aeschylus - Tragedies
4. Sophocles - Tragedies
5. Herodotus - Histories
6. Euripides - Tragedies
7. Thucydides - History of the Peloponnesian War
8. Hippocrates - Medical Writings
9. Aristophanes - Comedies
10. Plato - Dialogues
11. Aristotle - Works
12. Epicurus - Letter to Herodotus; Letter to Menoecus
13. Euclid - Elements
14.Archimedes - Works
15. Apollonius of Perga - Conic Sections
16. Cicero - Works
17. Lucretius - On the Nature of Things
18. Virgil - Works
19. Horace - Works
20. Livy - History of Rome
21. Ovid - Works
22. Plutarch - Parallel Lives; Moralia
23. Tacitus - Histories; Annals; Agricola Germania
24. Nicomachus of Gerasa - Introduction to Arithmetic
25. Epictetus - Discourses; Encheiridion
26. Ptolemy - Almagest
27. Lucian - Works
28. Marcus Aurelius - Meditations
29. Galen - On the Natural Faculties
30. The New Testament
31. Plotinus - The Enneads
32. St. Augustine - On the Teacher; Confessions; City of God; On Christian Doctrine
33. The Song of Roland
34. The Nibelungenlied
35. The Saga of Burnt Njal
36. St. Thomas Aquinas - Summa Theologica
37. Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy;The New Life; On Monarchy
38. Geoffrey Chaucer - Troilus and Criseyde; The Canterbury Tales
39. Leonardo da Vinci - Notebooks
40. Niccolò Machiavelli - The Prince; Discourses on the First Ten Books of Livy
41. Desiderius Erasmus - The Praise of Folly
42. Nicolaus Copernicus - On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres
43. Thomas More - Utopia
44. Martin Luther - Table Talk; Three Treatises
45. François Rabelais - Gargantua and Pantagruel
46. John Calvin - Institutes of the Christian Religion
47. Michel de Montaigne - Essays
48. William Gilbert - On the Loadstone and Magnetic Bodies
49. Miguel de Cervantes - Don Quixote
50. Edmund Spenser - Prothalamion; The Faerie Queene
51. Francis Bacon - Essays; Advancement of Learning; Novum Organum, New Atlantis
52. William Shakespeare - Poetry and Plays
53. Galileo Galilei - Starry Messenger; Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences
54. Johannes Kepler - Epitome of Copernican Astronomy; Concerning the Harmonies of the World
55. William Harvey - On the Motion of the Heart and Blood in Animals; On the Circulation of the Blood; On the Generation of Animals
56. Thomas Hobbes - Leviathan
57. René Descartes - Rules for the Direction of the Mind; Discourse on the Method; Geometry; Meditations on First Philosophy
58. John Milton - Works
59. Molière - Comedies
60. Blaise Pascal - The Provincial Letters; Pensees; Scientific Treatises
61. Christiaan Huygens - Treatise on Light
62. Benedict de Spinoza - Ethics
63. John Locke - Letter Concerning Toleration; Of Civil Government; Essay Concerning Human Understanding;Thoughts Concerning Education
64. Jean Baptiste Racine - Tragedies
65. Isaac Newton - Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy; Optics
66. Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz - Discourse on Metaphysics; New Essays Concerning Human Understanding;Monadology
67.Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe
68. Jonathan Swift - A Tale of a Tub; Journal to Stella; Gulliver's Travels; A Modest Proposal
69. William Congreve - The Way of the World
70. George Berkeley - Principles of Human Knowledge
71. Alexander Pope - Essay on Criticism; Rape of the Lock; Essay on Man
72. Charles de Secondat, baron de Montesquieu - Persian Letters; Spirit of Laws
73. Voltaire - Letters on the English; Candide; Philosophical Dictionary
74. Henry Fielding - Joseph Andrews; Tom Jones
75. Samuel Johnson - The Vanity of Human Wishes; Dictionary; Rasselas; The Lives of the Poets
   ~ Mortimer J Adler,
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   As an inner equality increases and with it the sense of the true vital being waiting for the greater direction it has to serve, as the psychic call too increases in all the members of our nature, That to which the call is addressed begins to reveal itself, descends to take possession of the life and its energies and fills them with the height, intimacy, vastness of its presence and its purpose. In many, if not most, it manifests something of itself even before the equality and the open psychic urge or guidance are there. A call of the veiled psychic element oppressed by the mass of the outer ignorance and crying for deliverance, a stress of eager meditation and seeking for knowledge, a longing of the heart, a passionate will ignorant yet but sincere may break the lid that shuts off that Higher from this Lower Nature and open the floodgates. A little of the Divine Person may reveal itself or some Light, Power, Bliss, Love out of the Infinite. This may be a momentary revelation, a flash or a brief-lived gleam that soon withdraws and waits for the preparation of the nature; but also it may repeat itself, grow, endure. A long and large and comprehensive working will then have begun, sometimes luminous or intense, sometimes slow and obscure. A Divine Power comes in front at times and leads and compels or instructs and enlightens; at others it withdraws into the background and seems to leave the being to its own resources. All that is ignorant, obscure, perverted or simply imperfect and inferior in the being is raised up, perhaps brought to its acme, dealt with, corrected, exhausted, shown its own disastrous results, compelled to call for its own cessation or transformation or expelled as worthless or incorrigible from the nature. This cannot be a smooth and even process; alternations there are of day and night, illumination and darkness, calm and construction or battle and upheaval, the presence of the growing Divine Consciousness and its absence, heights of hope and abysses of despair, the clasp of the Beloved and the anguish of its absence, the overwhelming invasion, the compelling deceit, the fierce opposition, the disabling mockery of hostile Powers or the help and comfort and communion of the Gods and the Divine Messengers. A great and long revolution and churning of the ocean of Life with strong emergences of its nectar and its poison is enforced till all is ready and the increasing Descent finds a being, a nature prepared and conditioned for its complete rule and its all-encompassing presence. But if the equality and the psychic light and will are already there, then this process, though it cannot be dispensed with, can still be much lightened and facilitated: it will be rid of its worst dangers; an inner calm, happiness, confidence will support the steps through all the difficulties and trials of the transformation and the growing Force profiting by the full assent of the nature will rapidly diminish and eliminate the power of the opposing forces. A sure guidance and protection will be present throughout, sometimes standing in front, sometimes working behind the veil, and the power of the end will be already there even in the beginning and in the long middle stages of the great endeavour. For at all times the seeker will be aware of the Divine Guide and Protector or the working of the supreme Mother-Force; he will know that all is done for the best, the progress assured, the victory inevitable. In either case the process is the same and unavoidable, a taking up of the whole nature, of the whole life, of the internal and of the external, to reveal and handle and transform its forces and their movements under the pressure of a diviner Life from above, until all here has been possessed by greater spiritual powers and made an instrumentation of a spiritual action and a divine purpose. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Ascent of the Sacrifice - 2, 179,
61:The ancient Mesopotamians and the ancient Egyptians had some very interesting, dramatic ideas about that. For example-very briefly-there was a deity known as Marduk. Marduk was a Mesopotamian deity, and imagine this is sort of what happened. As an empire grew out of the post-ice age-15,000 years ago, 10,000 years ago-all these tribes came together. These tribes each had their own deity-their own image of the ideal. But then they started to occupy the same territory. One tribe had God A, and one tribe had God B, and one could wipe the other one out, and then it would just be God A, who wins. That's not so good, because maybe you want to trade with those people, or maybe you don't want to lose half your population in a war. So then you have to have an argument about whose God is going to take priority-which ideal is going to take priority.

What seems to happen is represented in mythology as a battle of the gods in celestial space. From a practical perspective, it's more like an ongoing dialog. You believe this; I believe this. You believe that; I believe this. How are we going to meld that together? You take God A, and you take God B, and maybe what you do is extract God C from them, and you say, 'God C now has the attributes of A and B.' And then some other tribes come in, and C takes them over, too. Take Marduk, for example. He has 50 different names, at least in part, of the subordinate gods-that represented the tribes that came together to make the civilization. That's part of the process by which that abstracted ideal is abstracted. You think, 'this is important, and it works, because your tribe is alive, and so we'll take the best of both, if we can manage it, and extract out something, that's even more abstract, that covers both of us.'

I'll give you a couple of Marduk's interesting features. He has eyes all the way around his head. He's elected by all the other gods to be king God. That's the first thing. That's quite cool. They elect him because they're facing a terrible threat-sort of like a flood and a monster combined. Marduk basically says that, if they elect him top God, he'll go out and stop the flood monster, and they won't all get wiped out. It's a serious threat. It's chaos itself making its comeback. All the gods agree, and Marduk is the new manifestation. He's got eyes all the way around his head, and he speaks magic words. When he fights, he fights this deity called Tiamat. We need to know that, because the word 'Tiamat' is associated with the word 'tehom.' Tehom is the chaos that God makes order out of at the beginning of time in Genesis, so it's linked very tightly to this story. Marduk, with his eyes and his capacity to speak magic words, goes out and confronts Tiamat, who's like this watery sea dragon. It's a classic Saint George story: go out and wreak havoc on the dragon. He cuts her into pieces, and he makes the world out of her pieces. That's the world that human beings live in.

The Mesopotamian emperor acted out Marduk. He was allowed to be emperor insofar as he was a good Marduk. That meant that he had eyes all the way around his head, and he could speak magic; he could speak properly. We are starting to understand, at that point, the essence of leadership. Because what's leadership? It's the capacity to see what the hell's in front of your face, and maybe in every direction, and maybe the capacity to use your language properly to transform chaos into order. God only knows how long it took the Mesopotamians to figure that out. The best they could do was dramatize it, but it's staggeringly brilliant. It's by no means obvious, and this chaos is a very strange thing. This is a chaos that God wrestled with at the beginning of time.

Chaos is half psychological and half real. There's no other way to really describe it. Chaos is what you encounter when you're blown into pieces and thrown into deep confusion-when your world falls apart, when your dreams die, when you're betrayed. It's the chaos that emerges, and the chaos is everything it wants, and it's too much for you. That's for sure. It pulls you down into the underworld, and that's where the dragons are. All you've got at that point is your capacity to bloody well keep your eyes open, and to speak as carefully and as clearly as you can. Maybe, if you're lucky, you'll get through it that way and come out the other side. It's taken people a very long time to figure that out, and it looks, to me, that the idea is erected on the platform of our ancient ancestors, maybe tens of millions of years ago, because we seem to represent that which disturbs us deeply using the same system that we used to represent serpentile, or other, carnivorous predators. ~ Jordan Peterson, Biblical Series, 1,
62:Attention on Hypnagogic Imagery The most common strategy for inducing WILDs is to fall asleep while focusing on the hypnagogic imagery that accompanies sleep onset. Initially, you are likely to see relatively simple images, flashes of light, geometric patterns, and the like.

Gradually more complicated forms appear: faces, people, and finally entire scenes. 6

The following account of what the Russian philosopher P. D. Ouspensky called "half-dream states" provides a vivid example of what hypnagogic imagery can be like:

I am falling asleep. Golden dots, sparks and tiny stars appear and disappear before my eyes. These sparks and stars gradually merge into a golden net with diagonal meshes which moves slowly and regularly in rhythm with the beating of my heart, which I feel quite distinctly. The next moment the golden net is transformed into rows of brass helmets belonging to Roman soldiers marching along the street below. I hear their measured tread and watch them from the window of a high house in Galata, in Constantinople, in a narrow lane, one end of which leads to the old wharf and the Golden Horn with its ships and steamers and the minarets of Stamboul behind them. I hear their heavy measured tread, and see the sun shining on their helmets. Then suddenly I detach myself from the window sill on which I am lying, and in the same reclining position fly slowly over the lane, over the houses, and then over the Golden Horn in the direction of Stamboul. I smell the sea, feel the wind, the warm sun. This flying gives me a wonderfully pleasant sensation, and I cannot help opening my eyes. 7

Ouspensky's half-dream states developed out of a habit of observing the contents of his mind while falling asleep or in half-sleep after awakening from a dream. He notes that they were much easier to observe in the morning after awakening than before sleep at the beginning of the night and did not occur at all "without definite efforts." 8

Dr. Nathan Rapport, an American psychiatrist, cultivated an approach to lucid dreaming very similar to Ouspensky's: "While in bed awaiting sleep, the experimenter interrupts his thoughts every few minutes with an effort to recall the mental item vanishing before each intrusion that inquisitive attention." 9 This habit is continued sleep itself, with results like the following:

Brilliant lights flashed, and a myriad of sparkles twinkled from a magnificent cut glass chandelier. Interesting as any stage extravaganza were the many quaintly detailed figurines upon a mantel against the distant, paneled wall adorned in rococo.

At the right a merry group of beauties and gallants in the most elegant attire of Victorian England idled away a pleasant occasion. This scene continued for [a] period of I was not aware, before I discovered that it was not reality, but a mental picture and that I was viewing it. Instantly it became an incommunicably beautiful vision. It was with the greatest stealth that my vaguely awakened mind began to peep: for I knew that these glorious shows end abruptly because of such intrusions.

I thought, "Have I here one of those mind pictures that are without motion?" As if in reply, one of the young ladies gracefully waltzed about the room. She returned to the group and immobility, with a smile lighting her pretty face, which was turned over her shoulder toward me. The entire color scheme was unobtrusive despite the kaleidoscopic sparkles of the chandelier, the exquisite blues and creamy pinks of the rich settings and costumes. I felt that only my interest in dreams brought my notice to the tints - delicate, yet all alive as if with inner illumination. 10

Hypnagogic Imagery Technique

1. Relax completely

While lying in bed, gently close your eyes and relax your head, neck, back, arms, and legs. Completely let go of all muscular and mental tension, and breathe slowly and restfully. Enjoy the feeling of relaxation and let go of your thoughts, worries, and concerns. If you have just awakened from sleep, you are probably sufficiently relaxed.

Otherwise, you may use either the progressive relaxation exercise (page 33) or the 61-point relaxation exercise (page 34) to relax more deeply. Let everything wind down,

slower and slower, more and more relaxed, until your mind becomes as serene as the calmest sea.

2. Observe the visual images

Gently focus your attention on the visual images that will gradually appear before your mind's eye. Watch how the images begin and end. Try to observe the images as delicately as possible, allowing them to be passively reflected in your mind as they unfold. Do not attempt to hold onto the images, but instead just watch without attachment or desire for action. While doing this, try to take the perspective of a detached observer as much as possible. At first you will see a sequence of disconnected, fleeting patterns and images. The images will gradually develop into scenes that become more and more complex, finally joining into extended sequences.

3. Enter the dream

When the imagery becomes a moving, vivid scenario, you should allow yourself to be passively drawn into the dream world. Do not try to actively enter the dream scene,

but instead continue to take a detached interest in the imagery. Let your involvement with what is happening draw you into the dream. But be careful of too much involvement and too little attention. Don't forget that you are dreaming now!

Commentary

Probably the most difficult part of this technique to master is entering the dream at Step 3. The challenge is to develop a delicate vigilance, an unobtrusive observer perspective, from which you let yourself be drawn into the dream. As Paul Tholey has emphasized, "It is not desirable to want actively to enter into the scenery,

since such an intention as a rule causes the scenery to disappear." 11 A passive volition similar to that described in the section on autosuggestion in the previous chapter is required: in Tholey's words, "Instead of actively wanting to enter into the scenery, the subject should attempt to let himself be carried into it passively." 12 A Tibetan teacher advises a similar frame of mind: "While delicately observing the mind, lead it gently into the dream state, as though you were leading a child by the hand." 13

Another risk is that, once you have entered into the dream, the world can seem so realistic that it is easy to lose lucidity, as happened in the beginning of Rapport's WILD described above. As insurance in case this happens, Tholey recommends that you resolve to carry out a particular action in the dream, so that if you momentarily lose lucidity, you may remember your intention to carry out the action and thereby regain lucidity.
~ Stephen LaBerge, Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming,
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   The whole question.


The whole question? And now, do you understand?... Not quite? I told you that you did not understand because it was muddled up; in one question three different ideas were included. So naturally it created a confusion. But taken separately they are what I explained to you just now, most probably; that is to say, one has this altogether ignorant and obliterated consciousness and is convinced that he is the cause and effect, the origin and result of himself, separate from all others, separate with a limited power to act upon others and a little greater capacity to be set in movement by others or to react to others' influence. That is how people think usually, something like that, isn't that so? How do you feel, you? What effect do you have upon yourself? And you? And you?... You have never thought about it? You have never looked into yourself to see what effect you exercise upon yourself? Never thought over it? No? How do you feel? Nobody will tell me? Come, you tell me that. Never tried to understand how you feel? Yes? No? How strange! Never sought to understand how, for example, decisions take place in you? From where do they come? What makes you decide one thing rather than another? And what is the relation between a decision of yours and your action? And to what extent do you have the freedom of choice between one thing and another? And how far do you feel you are able to, you are free to do this or that or that other or nothing at all?... You have pondered over that? Yes? Is there any one among the students who has thought over it? No? Nobody put the question to himself? You? You?...

Even if one thinks over it, perhaps one is not able to answer!

One cannot explain?

No.

It is difficult to explain? Even this simple little thing, to see where in your consciousness the wills that come from outside meet your will (which you call yours, which comes from within), at what place the two join together and to what extent the one from outside acts upon that from within and the one from within acts upon that from outside? You have never tried to find this out? It has never seemed to you unbearable that a will from outside should have an action upon your will? No?

I do not know.

Oh! I am putting very difficult problems! But, my children, I was preoccupied with that when I was a child of five!... So I thought you must have been preoccupied with it since a long time. In oneself, there are contradictory wills. Yes, many. That is one of the very first discoveries. There is one part which wants things this way; and then at another moment, another way, and a third time, one wants still another thing! Besides, there is even this: something that wants and another which says no. So? But it is exactly that which has to be found if you wish in the least to organise yourself. Why not project yourself upon a screen, as in the cinema, and then look at yourself moving on it? How interesting it is!

This is the first step.

You project yourself on the screen and then observe and see all that is moving there and how it moves and what happens. You make a little diagram, it becomes so interesting then. And then, after a while, when you are quite accustomed to seeing, you can go one step further and take a decision. Or even a still greater step: you organise - arrange, take up all that, put each thing in its place, organise in such a way that you begin to have a straight movement with an inner meaning. And then you become conscious of your direction and are able to say: "Very well, it will be thus; my life will develop in that way, because that is the logic of my being. Now, I have arranged all that within me, each thing has been put in its place, and so naturally a central orientation is forming. I am following this orientation. One step more and I know what will happen to me for I myself am deciding it...." I do not know, I am telling you this; to me it seemed terribly interesting, the most interesting thing in the world. There was nothing, no other thing that interested me more than that.

This happened to me.... I was five or six or seven years old (at seven the thing became quite serious) and I had a father who loved the circus, and he came and told me: "Come with me, I am going to the circus on Sunday." I said: "No, I am doing something much more interesting than going to the circus!" Or again, young friends invited me to attend a meeting where we were to play together, enjoy together: "No, I enjoy here much more...." And it was quite sincere. It was not a pose: for me, it was like this, it was true. There was nothing in the world more enjoyable than that.

And I am so convinced that anybody who does it in that way, with the same freshness and sincerity, will obtain most interesting results.... To put all that on a screen in front of yourself and look at what is happening. And the first step is to know all that is happening and then you must not try to shut your eyes when something does not appear pleasant to you! You must keep them wide open and put each thing in that way before the screen. Then you make quite an interesting discovery. And then the next step is to start telling yourself: "Since all that is happening within me, why should I not put this thing in this way and then that thing in that way and then this other in this way and thus wouldn't I be doing something logical that has a meaning? Why should I not remove that thing which stands obstructing the way, these conflicting wills? Why? And what does that represent in the being? Why is it there? If it were put there, would it not help instead of harming me?" And so on.

And little by little, little by little, you see clearer and then you see why you are made like that, what is the thing you have got to do - that for which you are born. And then, quite naturally, since all is organised for this thing to happen, the path becomes straight and you can say beforehand: "It is in this way that it will happen." And when things come from outside to try and upset all that, you are able to say: "No, I accept this, for it helps; I reject that, for that harms." And then, after a few years, you curb yourself as you curb a horse: you do whatever you like, in the way you like and you go wherever you like.

It seems to me this is worth the trouble. I believe it is the most interesting thing.

...

You must have a great deal of sincerity, a little courage and perseverance and then a sort of mental curiosity, you understand, curious, seeking to know, interested, wanting to learn. To love to learn: that, one must have in one's nature. To find it impossible to stand before something grey, all hazy, in which nothing is seen clearly and which gives you quite an unpleasant feeling, for you do not know where you begin and where you end, what is yours and what is not yours and what is settled and what is not settled - what is this pulp-like thing you call yourself in which things get intermingled and act upon one another without even your being aware of it? You ask yourself: "But why have I done this?" You know nothing about it. "And why have I felt that?" You don't know that, either. And then, you are thrown into a world outside that is only fog and you are thrown into a world inside that is also for you another kind of fog, still more impenetrable, in which you live, like a cork thrown upon the waters and the waves carry it away or cast it into the air, and it drops and rolls on. That is quite an unpleasant state. I do not know, but to me it appears unpleasant.

To see clearly, to see one's way, where one is going, why one is going there, how one is to go there and what one is going to do and what is the kind of relation with others... But that is a problem so wonderfully interesting - it is interesting - and you can always discover things every minute! One's work is never finished.

There is a time, there is a certain state of consciousness when you have the feeling that you are in that condition with all the weight of the world lying heavy upon you and besides you are going in blinkers and do not know where you are going, but there is something which is pushing you. And that is truly a very unpleasant condition. And there is another moment when one draws oneself up and is able to see what is there above, and one becomes it; then one looks at the world as though from the top of a very very high mountain and one sees all that is happening below; then one can choose one's way and follow it. That is a more pleasant condition. This then is truly the truth, you are upon earth for that, surely. All individual beings and all the little concentrations of consciousness were created to do this work. It is the very reason for existence: to be able to become fully conscious of a certain sum of vibrations representing an individual being and put order there and find one's way and follow it.

And so, as men do not know it and do not do it, life comes and gives them a blow here: "Oh! that hurts", then a blow there: "Ah! that's hurting me." And the thing goes on like that and all the time it is like that. And all the time they are getting pain somewhere. They suffer, they cry, they groan. But it is simply due to that reason, there is no other: it is that they have not done that little work. If, when they were quite young, there had been someone to teach them to do the work and they had done it without losing time, they could have gone through life gloriously and instead of suffering they would have been all-powerful masters of their destiny.

This is not to say that necessarily all things would become pleasant. It is not at all that. But your reaction towards things becomes the true reaction and instead of suffering, you learn; instead of being miserable, you go forward and progress. After all, I believe it is for this that you are here - so that there is someone who can tell you: "There, well, try that. It is worth trying." ~ The Mother, Questions And Answers 1953, 199,
64:[The Gods and Their Worlds]

   [...] According to traditions and occult schools, all these zones of realities, these planes of realities have got different names; they have been classified in a different way, but there is an essential analogy, and if you go back far enough into the traditions, you see only the words changing according to the country and the language. Even now, the experiences of Western occultists and those of Eastern occultists offer great similarities. All who set out on the discovery of these invisible worlds and make a report of what they saw, give a very similar description, whether they be from here or there; they use different words, but the experience is very similar and the handling of forces is the same.

   This knowledge of the occult worlds is based on the existence of subtle bodies and of subtle worlds corresponding to those bodies. They are what the psychological method calls "states of consciousness", but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult procedure consists then in being aware of these various inner states of being or subtle bodies and in becoming sufficiently a master of them so as to be able to go out of them successively, one after another. There is indeed a whole scale of subtleties, increasing or decreasing according to the direction in which you go, and the occult procedure consists in going out of a denser body into a subtler body and so on again, up to the most ethereal regions. You go, by successive exteriorisations, into bodies or worlds more and more subtle. It is somewhat as if every time you passed into another dimension. The fourth dimension of the physicists is nothing but the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge. To give another image, one can say that the physical body is at the centre - it is the most material, the densest and also the smallest - and the inner bodies, more subtle, overflow more and more the central physical body; they pass through it, extending themselves farther and farther, like water evaporating from a porous vase and forming a kind of steam all around. And the greater the subtlety, the more the extension tends to unite with that of the universe: one ends by universalising oneself. And it is altogether a concrete process which gives an objective experience of invisible worlds and even enables one to act in these worlds.

   There are, then, only a very small number of people in the West who know that these gods are not merely subjective and imaginary - more or less wildly imaginary - but that they correspond to a universal truth.

   All these regions, all these domains are filled with beings who exist, each in its own domain, and if you are awake and conscious on a particular plane - for instance, if on going out of a more material body you awake on some higher plane, you have the same relation with the things and people of that plane as you had with the things and people of the material world. That is to say, there exists an entirely objective relation that has nothing to do with the idea you may have of these things. Naturally, the resemblance is greater and greater as you approach the physical world, the material world, and there even comes a time when the one region has a direct action upon the other. In any case, in what Sri Aurobindo calls the overmental worlds, you will find a concrete reality absolutely independent of your personal experience; you go back there and again find the same things, with the differences that have occurred during your absence. And you have relations with those beings that are identical with the relations you have with physical beings, with this difference that the relation is more plastic, supple and direct - for example, there is the capacity to change the external form, the visible form, according to the inner state you are in. But you can make an appointment with someone and be at the appointed place and find the same being again, with certain differences that have come about during your absence; it is entirely concrete with results entirely concrete.

   One must have at least a little of this experience in order to understand these things. Otherwise, those who are convinced that all this is mere human imagination and mental formation, who believe that these gods have such and such a form because men have thought them to be like that, and that they have certain defects and certain qualities because men have thought them to be like that - all those who say that God is made in the image of man and that he exists only in human thought, all these will not understand; to them this will appear absolutely ridiculous, madness. One must have lived a little, touched the subject a little, to know how very concrete the thing is.

   Naturally, children know a good deal if they have not been spoilt. There are so many children who return every night to the same place and continue to live the life they have begun there. When these faculties are not spoilt with age, you can keep them with you. At a time when I was especially interested in dreams, I could return exactly to a place and continue a work that I had begun: supervise something, for example, set something in order, a work of organisation or of discovery, of exploration. You go until you reach a certain spot, as you would go in life, then you take a rest, then you return and begin again - you begin the work at the place where you left off and you continue it. And you perceive that there are things which are quite independent of you, in the sense that changes of which you are not at all the author, have taken place automatically during your absence.

   But for this, you must live these experiences yourself, you must see them yourself, live them with sufficient sincerity and spontaneity in order to see that they are independent of any mental formation. For you can do the opposite also, and deepen the study of the action of mental formation upon events. This is very interesting, but it is another domain. And this study makes you very careful, very prudent, because you become aware of how far you can delude yourself. So you must study both, the dream and the occult reality, in order to see what is the essential difference between the two. The one depends upon us; the other exists in itself; entirely independent of the thought that we have of it.

   When you have worked in that domain, you recognise in fact that once a subject has been studied and something has been learnt mentally, it gives a special colour to the experience; the experience may be quite spontaneous and sincere, but the simple fact that the subject was known and studied lends a particular quality. Whereas if you had learnt nothing about the question, if you knew nothing at all, the transcription would be completely spontaneous and sincere when the experience came; it would be more or less adequate, but it would not be the outcome of a previous mental formation.

   Naturally, this occult knowledge or this experience is not very frequent in the world, because in those who do not have a developed inner life, there are veritable gaps between the external consciousness and the inmost consciousness; the linking states of being are missing and they have to be constructed. So when people enter there for the first time, they are bewildered, they have the impression they have fallen into the night, into nothingness, into non-being!

   I had a Danish friend, a painter, who was like that. He wanted me to teach him how to go out of the body; he used to have interesting dreams and thought that it would be worth the trouble to go there consciously. So I made him "go out" - but it was a frightful thing! When he was dreaming, a part of his mind still remained conscious, active, and a kind of link existed between this active part and his external being; then he remembered some of his dreams, but it was a very partial phenomenon. And to go out of one's body means to pass gradually through all the states of being, if one does the thing systematically. Well, already in the subtle physical, one is almost de-individualised, and when one goes farther, there remains nothing, for nothing is formed or individualised.

   Thus, when people are asked to meditate or told to go within, to enter into themselves, they are in agony - naturally! They have the impression that they are vanishing. And with reason: there is nothing, no consciousness!

   These things that appear to us quite natural and evident, are, for people who know nothing, wild imagination. If, for example, you transplant these experiences or this knowledge to the West, well, unless you have been frequenting the circles of occultists, they stare at you with open eyes. And when you have turned your back, they hasten to say, "These people are cranks!" Now to come back to the gods and conclude. It must be said that all those beings who have never had an earthly existence - gods or demons, invisible beings and powers - do not possess what the Divine has put into man: the psychic being. And this psychic being gives to man true love, charity, compassion, a deep kindness, which compensate for all his external defects.

   In the gods there is no fault because they live according to their own nature, spontaneously and without constraint: as gods, it is their manner of being. But if you take a higher point of view, if you have a higher vision, a vision of the whole, you see that they lack certain qualities that are exclusively human. By his capacity of love and self-giving, man can have as much power as the gods and even more, when he is not egoistic, when he has surmounted his egoism.

   If he fulfils the required condition, man is nearer to the Supreme than the gods are. He can be nearer. He is not so automatically, but he has the power to be so, the potentiality.

   If human love manifested itself without mixture, it would be all-powerful. Unfortunately, in human love there is as much love of oneself as of the one loved; it is not a love that makes you forget yourself. - 4 November 1958

   ~ The Mother, Words Of The Mother III, 355
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*** WISDOM TROVE ***

1:Direction determines destination. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
2:It is a direction not a destination. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
3:Play needs direction as well as work. ~ elbert-hubbard, @wisdomtrove
4:The wisest men follow their own direction. ~ euripedes, @wisdomtrove
5:Our words set the direction for our lives. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
6:You will move in the direction you are facing. ~ og-mandino, @wisdomtrove
7:You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove
8:There's only one direction you can coast-downhill. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
9:Where would I be without my sense of direction? ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove
10:Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
11:Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove
12:It's never too late to start heading in the right direction. ~ seth-godin, @wisdomtrove
13:The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
14:If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ~ buddha, @wisdomtrove
15:On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
16:Goals allow you to control the direction of change in your favor. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
17:If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ~ lao-tzu, @wisdomtrove
18:Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
19:Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
20:Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
21:Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ john-f-kennedy, @wisdomtrove
22:Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove
23:Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. ~ teresa-of-avila, @wisdomtrove
24:I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly. ~ william-blake, @wisdomtrove
25:Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove
26:The mind moves in the direction of our currently dominant thoughts. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove
27:Passion will always move you in the direction of your authentic self. ~ danielle-laporte, @wisdomtrove
28:The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future in life. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove
29:When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails ~ h-jackson-brown-jr, @wisdomtrove
30:You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
31:Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction. ~ amit-ray, @wisdomtrove
32:Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
33:Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove
34:Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
35:Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove
36:I claim my heart's desire, and I choose my direction. I will attain my chosen goal. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove
37:And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
38:Every day, set your mind in the right direction. Find something to be grateful for. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
39:If the things behind you are tripping you, you're moving in the wrong direction. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove
40:It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ~ thomas-paine, @wisdomtrove
41:let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
42:One step in the right direction is better than a hundred years of thinking about it. ~ t-harv-eker, @wisdomtrove
43:The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove
44:True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
45:We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within. ~ lyania-vanzant, @wisdomtrove
46:Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
47:Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
48:The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
49:If you move boldly in the direction of your goals, unseen forces will come to your aid. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
50:You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
51:In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
52:Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove
53:If you haven't met Satan face to face, it's because you are running in the same direction. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
54:There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
55:A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses. ~ h-l-mencken, @wisdomtrove
56:Focus! True direction is being woken up at 3 am and knowing exactly what your one goal is. ~ tony-robbins, @wisdomtrove
57:If you want to sail your ship in a different direction, you must turn one degree at a time. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
58:Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove
59:True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. ~ adyashanti, @wisdomtrove
60:We’ve been looking outside us for our own peace. We’ve been looking in the wrong direction. ~ byron-katie, @wisdomtrove
61:It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
62:Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction. ~ ashleigh-brilliant, @wisdomtrove
63:Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
64:Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
65:Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
66:This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
67:History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
68:Do you need strength? Peace? Wisdom? Direction? Discipline? Ask for it! God will hear you. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
69:To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove
70:Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
71:Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
72:There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction. ~ ogden-nash, @wisdomtrove
73:Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. ~ henry-ward-beecher, @wisdomtrove
74:The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. ~ samuel-johnson, @wisdomtrove
75:The only real antidote to worry or problems is systematic, purposeful action in the direction of your goals. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
76:Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove
77:Ordinary photons do have spin, they have a notion of helicity so they spin around their direction on motion. ~ roger-penrose, @wisdomtrove
78:The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
79:When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
80:You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going. ~ bob-marley, @wisdomtrove
81:The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. ~ johann-wolfgang-von-goethe, @wisdomtrove
82:Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove
83:The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. ~ stephen-hawking, @wisdomtrove
84:Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right ~ jean-vanier, @wisdomtrove
85:Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
86:The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
87:Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove
88:Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. ~ ralph-waldo-emerson, @wisdomtrove
89:Single-minded concentration in the direction of your dreams intensifies your desires and increases your self-confidence. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
90:Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction. ~ phyllis-diller, @wisdomtrove
91:When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
92:Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again. ~ nicholas-sparks, @wisdomtrove
93:In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized. ~ gangaji, @wisdomtrove
94:Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose. ~ robin-sharma, @wisdomtrove
95:That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
96:When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
97:When we hear a prediction of some disaster we need to throw the entire weight of our positive thought in the opposite direction! ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
98:The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
99:Forget about the consequences of failure. Failure is only a temporary change in direction to set you straight for your next success. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
100:Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
101:Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove
102:There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
103:It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought. ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove
104:To change your mind under the direction of the wisdom of the heart is a brush stroke on the masterpiece you are delivering to the world. ~ alan-cohen, @wisdomtrove
105:Being human means you will make mistakes. And you will make mistakes, because failure is God's way of moving you in another direction. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove
106:Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. ~ dale-carnegie, @wisdomtrove
107:You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
108:I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. ~ george-washington, @wisdomtrove
109:Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions. ~ sun-tzu, @wisdomtrove
110:Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
111:They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. ~ jane-austen, @wisdomtrove
112:I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!" ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove
113:I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. ~ gertrude-stein, @wisdomtrove
114:Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ~ plato, @wisdomtrove
115:Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove
116:It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
117:Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
118:Sekts and creeds ov religion, are like pocket compesses, good enuff tu pinte out the direction, but the nearer the pole yu git thewuss tha wurk. ~ josh-billings, @wisdomtrove
119:When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. ~ henry-miller, @wisdomtrove
120:Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction &
121:The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
122:The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
123:We look forward to a speedy conclusion to the takeover and working with Paul Little and the Toll group to map out the future direction of Virgin Blue. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove
124:When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
125:Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage - to move in the opposite direction. ~ albert-einstein, @wisdomtrove
126:If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove
127:Positive self-direction is the action plan that all winners in life use to turn imagination into reality, fantasy into fact, and dreams into actual goals. ~ denis-waitley, @wisdomtrove
128:There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove
129:A mastery of time allows you to squeeze the maximum possible achievement in the direction of your dreams out of every hour, every day - without going crazy. ~ tony-robbins, @wisdomtrove
130:Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove
131:A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
132:What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove
133:Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction. ~ james-redfield, @wisdomtrove
134:No, the thing that makes for greatness is determination, persisting in the right direction over the long haul, following your dream, staying at the task. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
135:Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; &
136:There is an unseen life that dreams us; it knows our true direction and destiny. We can trust ourselves more than we realize, and we need have no fear of change. ~ john-odonohue, @wisdomtrove
137:Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
138:I can depend less and less on my own power and sense of direction... It is so strange to advance backwards and get where you are going in a totally unexpected way ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
139:Select companions who are striving for enlightenment. They all have their imperfections, certainly, but at least their attention is moving in the right direction. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
140:Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
141:A revolution can be neither made nor stopped. The only thing that can be done is for one of several of its children to give it a direction by dint of victories. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
142:It is our philosophical set of the sail that determines the course of our lives. To change our current Direction, we have to change our philosophy, not our circumstances. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
143:Comes over one an absolute necessity to move. And what is more, to move in some particular direction. A double necessity then: to get on the move, and to know whither. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
144:Solutions nearly always come from the direction you least expect, which means there's no point trying to look in that direction because it won't be coming from there. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
145:People are only influenced in the direction in which they want to go, and influence consists largely in making them conscious of their wishes to proceed in that direction. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
146:Failure is just a way for our lives to show us that we’re moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different. It holds no more power than we give it. ~ oprah-winfrey, @wisdomtrove
147:As you head toward your goals, be prepared to make some slight adjustments to your course. You don't change your decision to go - you do change your direction to get there. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
148:I realized that my bliss and my heartbreak both point in the same direction. I follow my joy and my heartbreak simultaneously because they’re two sides of the same coin. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove
149:The choice is yours. You hold the tiller. You can steer the course you choose in the direction of where you want to be - today, tomorrow, or in a distant time to come. ~ w-clement-stone, @wisdomtrove
150:Innovation is usually the result of connections of past experiences. But if you have the same experiences as everyone else, you are unlikely to look in a different direction. ~ steve-jobs, @wisdomtrove
151:Unless the direction of science is guided by a consciously ethical motivation, especially compassion, its effects may fail to bring benefit. They may indeed cause great harm.   ~ dalai-lama, @wisdomtrove
152:Know that life, which does everything perfectly, is now moving you in a new direction. The chess piece of your existence is being moved to a new square on the board of life. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
153:You can't talk defeat and expect to have victory. You can't talk lack and expect to have abundance. You've got to send your words out in the direction you want your life to go. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
154:Know first that no urge, no influence, is greater than the will of the self to do what it determines to accomplish in any direction - whether physically, mentally, or spiritually. ~ edgar-cayce, @wisdomtrove
155:All the sutras in the world are useless. All the lectures of all the teachers don't really mean anything. They are only words. They point in a direction, that is their only use. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
156:And these little things may not seem like much but after a while they take you off on a direction where you may be a long way off from what other people have been thinking about. ~ roger-penrose, @wisdomtrove
157:Metaphysical thinking will always no doubt be a strong element in her mentality, and it is to be hoped that she will never lose her great, her sovereign powers in that direction. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove
158:The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ~ denis-diderot, @wisdomtrove
159:There is not one life that doesn’t add tremendous value to the whole. Somewhere inside of us we know this to be true; we hear the call to head in the direction of this bigger life. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove
160:The highest manifestation of life consists in this: that a being governs its own actions. A thing which is always subject to the direction of another is somewhat of a dead thing. ~ thomas-aquinas, @wisdomtrove
161:It should not be believed that a march of three or four days in the wrong direction can be corrected by a countermarch. As a rule, this is to make two mistakes instead of one. ~ napoleon-bonaparte, @wisdomtrove
162:He whom the sages have been seeking in all these places is in our own hearts; the voice that you heard was right, says Vedanta, but the direction you gave to the voice was wrong. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove
163:The Holy Spirit gives liberty to the Christian, direction to the worker, discernment to the teacher, power to the Word, and fruit to faithful service. He reveals the things of Christ. ~ billy-graham, @wisdomtrove
164:Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. Camp out among the grasses and gentians of glacial meadows, in craggy garden nooks full of nature's darlings. ~ john-muir, @wisdomtrove
165:Actions are sometimes performed in a masterly and most cunning way, while the direction of the actions is deranged and dependent on various morbid impressions - it's like a dream. ~ fyodor-dostoevsky, @wisdomtrove
166:As a mortal being you are limited, but as a child of God you are unlimited... Focus your attention on God, and you shall have all the power you want, to use in any direction. ~ paramahansa-yogananda, @wisdomtrove
167:It has never occurred to me to wish for empire or royalty, nor for the eminence of those high and commanding fortunes. My aim lies not in that direction; I love myself too well. ~ michel-de-montaigne, @wisdomtrove
168:People who are crucified with Christ have three distinct marks: 1. they are facing only one direction, 2. they can never turn back, and 3. they no longer have plans of their own. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
169:Surrender is a gift that you can give yourself. It's an act of faith. It's saying that even though I can't see where this river is flowing, I trust it will take me in the right direction. ~ debbie-ford, @wisdomtrove
170:At any given moment, life is completely senseless. But viewed over a period, it seems to reveal itself as an organism existing in time, having a purpose, trending in a certain direction. ~ aldous-huxley, @wisdomtrove
171:Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love.   ~ don-miguel-ruiz, @wisdomtrove
172:I wonder why it is that when I plan a route too carefully, it goes to pieces, whereas if I blunder along in blissful ignorance aimed in a fancied direction I get through with no trouble. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
173:Christ came to bring healing to those who are spiritually sick-you say that you are perfectly well, so you must go your own way and Christ will go in another direction-towar ds sinners. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
174:If you're watching a parade, make sure you stand in one spot. Don't follow it. It never changes. And if the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast forward the parade. ~ mitch-hedberg, @wisdomtrove
175:The same wind blows on us all; the winds of disaster, opportunity and change. Therefore, it is not the blowing of the wind, but the setting of the sails that will determine our direction in life. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
176:To receive spiritual direction is to recognize that God does not solve our problems or answer all our questions, but leads us closer to the mystery of our existence where all questions cease. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
177:Life draws us in different directions, sometimes simultaneously. When you follow the direction that life draws you in, if you stay in a very powerful state of mind, then you'll see eternity. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
178:Anybody who is imitating somebody else, no matter who it us, is heading in the wrong direction. It is impossible to become like somebody else. Your only hope is to become more fully yourself. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove
179:Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along. ~ f-scott-fitzgerald, @wisdomtrove
180:As the proportion of people reaching higher states of consciousness increases, this inertia will decrease, and at the same time a supportive momentum in the new direction will start building up. ~ peter-russell, @wisdomtrove
181:God cast you in His play, wrote you into His story. He has a definite direction for your life. Fulfill it and enjoy fulfillment. Play the part God prepared for you and get ready for some great days. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
182:In &
183:You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose. You're on your own, and you know what you know. And you are the guy who'll decide where to go. ~ dr-seuss, @wisdomtrove
184:Every person has unique gifts, and those gifts give him or her the power and the opportunity to accomplish great things, if he or she learns how to use those gifts and channel them in the right direction. ~ zig-ziglar, @wisdomtrove
185:In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove
186:Wholehearted living is not like trying to reach a destination. It's like walking toward a star in the sky. We never really &
187:The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any prescription. ~ norman-cousins, @wisdomtrove
188:We are participating in the orderly transfer of administrative authority by the direction of the people. And this is the simple magic which makes a commonplace routine a near miracle to many of the world ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
189:There can be no limitation of that authority which is to provide for the defence and protection of the community in any matter essential to the formation, direction, or support of the NATIONAL FORCES. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove
190:Adjusting to a new path and a new direction will require new qualities and strengths, and these qualities are always exactly what we need to acquire in order to accomplish the great things ahead in our life. ~ rhonda-byrne, @wisdomtrove
191:If a person is working toward a predetermined goal and knows where to go, then that person is successful. If a person does not know which direction they want to go in life, then that person is a failure. ~ earl-nightingale, @wisdomtrove
192:The child who has felt a strong love for his surroundings and for all living creatures, who has discovered joy and enthusiasm in work, gives us reason to hope that humanity can develop in a new direction. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove
193:In order to find Jesus, every one of us needs direction. God gives it. The story of the wise men shows us how. The star sign was enough to lead the magi to Jerusalem. But it took Scripture to lead them to Jesus. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
194:It is ludicrous to read the microwave direction on the boxes of food you buy, as each one will have a disclaimer: THIS WILL VARY WITH YOUR MICROWAVE. Loosely translated, this means, You're on your own, Bernice. ~ erma-bombeck, @wisdomtrove
195:If your emotions are helping you know that your choice of thought is not taking you in the direction you desire to go, then do something about that: Replenish your connection by choosing better-feeling thoughts. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove
196:This power ought to be coextensive with all the possible combinations of such circumstances; and ought to be under the direction of the same councils which are appointed to preside over the common defense. ~ alexander-hamilton, @wisdomtrove
197:Ask purposeful questions. Questions elicit answers. The kind of questions you ask will steer the direction of the conversation. To have a meaningful conversation with the other person, ask meaningful questions. ~ celestine-chua, @wisdomtrove
198:That's what this thing called Christian life is all about, isn't it. Going . . . yet not knowing. As followers of our Lord we believe He leads us in a certain direction . . . or in pursuit of a precise goal. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
199:To begin with the end in mind means to begin each day, task, or project with a clear vision of your desired direction and destination, and then continue by flexing your proactive muscles to make things happen.   ~ stephen-r-covey, @wisdomtrove
200:The magnetic needle always points to the north, and hence it is that sailing vessel does not lose her direction. So long as the heart of man is directed towards God, he cannot be lost in the ocean of worldliness. ~ sri-ramakrishna, @wisdomtrove
201:True friends don’t spend time gazing into each other’s eyes. They may show great tenderness towards each other but they face in the same direction - toward common projects, goals - above all, towards a common Lord. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
202:Values act as our compass to put us back on course every single day, so that day after day, we're moving in the direction that takes us closer and closer to our definition of the "best" life we could possibly live. ~ steve-pavlina, @wisdomtrove
203:If you don't have a plan for what you want, then you will probably find yourself buying into someone else's plan and later find out that was not the direction you wanted to go. You've got to be the architect of your life. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
204:Focus your attention on the center of your forehead. Visualize that there is a slow but steady swirl of white light there. Visualize that the white light above your forehead is slowly moving in a clockwise direction. ~ frederick-lenz, @wisdomtrove
205:Your life will follow your expectations. What you expect is what you will get. If you dwell on positive thoughts, you will move in that direction; if you continually think negative thoughts, you will live a negative life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
206:Objectives are not fate; they are direction. They are not commands; they are commitments. They do not determine the future; they are a means to mobilize resources and energies of the business for the making of the future. ~ peter-drucker, @wisdomtrove
207:Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove
208:Experience is a mere whiff or rumble, produced by enormously complex and ill-deciphered causes of experience; and in the other direction, experience is a mere peephole through which glimpses come down to us of eternal things. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
209:Sometimes in life, a fog sets in and you don't know which way is the right direction. Every voice may tell you it's not going to happen, but God has placed a promise in your heart. Refuse to listen to those voices. Keep believing. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
210:The direction of a big act will warp history, but probably all acts do the same in their degree, down to a stone stepped over in the path or the breath caught at sight of a pretty girl or a fingernail nicked in the garden soil. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
211:Our thoughts are like roots which reach out in every direction into the cosmic ocean of formless energy, and these thought-roots set in motion vibrations like themselves and attract the affinities of our desires and ambitions. ~ orison-swett-marden, @wisdomtrove
212:A Tibetan Lama said to me, "The best place to stand, Ram Dass, is halfway between hope and hopelessness." So I can write a scenario for the 21st century in either direction. One is that it all goes to hell and that it's truly the dark age. ~ ram-das, @wisdomtrove
213:Our soulmate is someone who shares our deepest longings, our sense of direction. When we're two balloons, and together our direction is up, chances are we've found the right person. Our soulmate is the one who makes life come to life. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove
214:I got lost somehow, began staring up her legs. I was always a leg man. It was the first thing I saw when I was born. But then I was trying to get out. Ever since I have been working in the other direction and with pretty lousy luck. ~ charles-bukowski, @wisdomtrove
215:On Earth, we are unmanned by our longing for a pastoral past that never really existed; and that, if it had existed, could never exist again... on the Moon, there is no past to long for or dream about. There is no direction but forward. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
216:Start announcing freedom from anything that’s holding you back. Freedom from addictions, freedom from loneliness, freedom from lack, freedom from struggle. You are prophesying your future. Your words are setting the direction for your life. ~ joel-osteen, @wisdomtrove
217:They walked back into the world together, wearing the gift that had been given them: just life. Pity was not love, Barbie reflected... but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction. ~ stephen-king, @wisdomtrove
218:When we arrive at dilemmas in life and we are unable to decipher the right direction to go, if we hope to maintain our confidence in the process, we must (repeat must) allow the Lord to be our Guide, our Strength, our Wisdom - our all! ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
219:Although profoundly "inconsequential," the Zen experience has consequences in the sense that it may be applied in any direction, to any conceivable human activity, and that wherever it is so applied it lends an unmistakable quality to the work. ~ alan-watts, @wisdomtrove
220:Everything God tells us to do is for our good. Whether it's direction you get in His Word or something He's specifically put in your heart for your situation in life, the absolute best thing you can ever do is obey Him promptly and completely. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
221:I think the Messianic concept, which is the Jewish offering to mankind, is a great victory. What does it mean? It means that history has a sense, a meaning, a direction; it goes somewhere, and necessarily in a good direction&
222:I don't care much for facts, am not much interested in them, you can't stand a fact up, you've got to prop it up, and when you move to one side a little and look at it from that angle, it's not thick enough to cast a shadow in that direction. ~ william-faulkner, @wisdomtrove
223:To be truly happy, you need a clear sense of direction. You need a commitment to something bigger and more important than yourself. You need to feel that your life stands for something, that you are somehow making a valuable contribution to your world. ~ brian-tracy, @wisdomtrove
224:Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
225:On conflicts, generally speaking, the world is a hell of a lot better to live in today than it was thirty years ago, despite what's going on in Syria. There are definitely hopeful signs that the world is moving, decade by decade, in the right direction. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove
226:One of the great cosmic laws, I think, is that whatever we hold in our thought will come true in our experience. When we hold something, anything, in our thought, then somehow coincidence leads us in the direction that we've been wishing to lead ourselves. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove
227:I find the great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it, but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor. ~ oliver-wendell-holmes-jr, @wisdomtrove
228:In a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove
229:Those who feel lovable, who love, and who experience belonging simply believe they are worthy of love and belonging. I often say that Wholeheartedness is like the North Star: We never really arrive, but we certainly know if we're headed in the right direction. ~ brene-brown, @wisdomtrove
230:Our highest endeavor must be to develop free human beings who are able of themselves to impart purpose and direction to their lives. The need for imagination, a sense of truth, and a feeling of responsibility—these three forces are the very nerve of education. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
231:Beautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit. ~ giordano-bruno, @wisdomtrove
232:I question and soul-search constantly into myself to be as certain as I can that I am fulfilling the true meaning of my work, that I am maintaining my sense of purpose, that I am holding fast to my ideals, that I am guiding my people in the right direction. ~ martin-luther-king, @wisdomtrove
233:Leadership rests not only on outstanding ability. It also rests on commitment, loyalty and pride. It rests on followers who are ready to accept guidance. Leadership is the ability to direct people and - more important - to have those people accept that direction. ~ vince-lombardi, @wisdomtrove
234:Today is the first day of the rest of your life. Are you satisfied with where you are and the direction you are going? If not, take control of your life and change whatever needs to be changed. You and only you have the power to do this. You can change your world! ~ napoleon-hill, @wisdomtrove
235:Whoever now makes himself bigger, freer and more human in his own existence, is doing his part toward peace, — as yet it must be worked at in an inward direction, not until a few have it all big and ready within them can it let itself be brought into the world. ~ rainer-maria-rilke, @wisdomtrove
236:In Spanish there is a word for which I can't find a counterword in English. It is the verb VACILAR... It does not mean vacillating at all. If one is vacilando, he is going somewhere, but does not greatly care whether or not he gets there, although he has direction. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
237:Great artists make the roads; good teachers and good companions can point them out. But there ain't no free rides, baby. No hitchhiking. And if you want to strike out in any new direction — you go alone. With a machete in your hand and the fear of God in your heart. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
238:I have on my table a violin string. It is free to move in any direction I like. If I twist one end, it responds; it is free. But it is not free to sing. So I take it and fix it into my violin. I bind it and when it is bound, it is free for the first time to sing. ~ rabindranath-tagore, @wisdomtrove
239:If we value independence, if we are disturbed by the growing conformity of knowledge, of values, of attitudes, which our present system induces, then we may wish to set up conditions of learning which make for uniqueness, for self-direction, and for self-initiated learning. ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
240:It is man's pretence that because he has choice he is free. Freedom is pure observation without direction, without fear of punishment and reward. Freedom is without motive; freedom is not at the end of the evolution of man but lies in the first step of his existence. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
241:When what we introduce into the children's world of ideas and feelings is in line with the direction of the developmental forces of a given stage of life, we strengthen the entire developing person in a way that remains a source of strength throughout that person's life. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
242:It is customary for the recipient of this award to offer personal or scholarly comment on the nature and the direction of literature. At this particular time, however, I think it would be well to consider the high duties and the responsibilities of the makers of literature. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
243:I bet the reason people are afraid of going bald is because it makes them think of the end of life. I mean, when your hair starts to thin, it must feel as if your life is being worn away ... as if you've taken a giant step in the direction of death, the last Big Consumption. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
244:Our words must be judged by our deeds; and in striving for a lofty ideal we must use practical methods; and if we cannot attain all at one leap, we must advance towards it step by step, reasonably content so long as we do actually make some progress in the right direction. ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove
245:Whatever happens on the surface, it's leading us in a direction. That beautiful core within us that is our character will make choices that will inevitably leads us to a higher understanding of who we are and why we're here. And it's best to be aware of that while it's happening. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove
246:With every decision that anyone makes, the world changes. The decision that we give our consent to is the one that remains in our consciousness, but the one that we didn't make-that alternate world goes on in its own direction. So there's uncountable numbers of alternate "us-es." ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove
247:As St. Thomas Aquinas (1225–1274) taught, whatever we say about God is more unlike God than saying nothing. If we do say something, it can only be a pointer toward the Mystery that can never be articulated in words. All that words can do is point in the direction of the Mystery. ~ thomas-keating, @wisdomtrove
248:The theory that thought is merely a movement in the brain is, in my opinion, nonsense; for if so, that theory itself would be merely a movement, an event among atoms, which may have speed and direction but of which it would be meaningless to use the words &
249:A cloud does not know why it moves in just such a direction and at such a speed, it feels an impulsion... this is the place to go now. But the sky knows the reasons and the patterns behind all clouds, and you will know, too, when you lift yourself high enough to see beyond horizons. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove
250:He had extracted himself from the Cambridge one-way system by the usual method, which involved going round and round it faster and faster until he achieved a sort of escape velocity and flew off at a tangent in a random direction, which he was now trying to identify and correct for. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
251:Mindfulness is a way to rebalance ourselves. Instead of being lost in thought, or caught up in emotional upheaval, we can tip the scale in the direction of greater equanimity, clarity, wisdom, and self-compassion by actually learning how to inhabit that other dimension of our being. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove
252:Nature and training (in any sport or art) can teach us all the spiritual laws I describe in another book, The Laws of Spirit. But now I'm happy to share these four purposes of life that lend meaning and direction to anyone's life, especially those in transition, going through changes." ~ dan-millman, @wisdomtrove
253:It would be helpful if the universe would give us one big clue, or a giant compass, if you will, pointing to the direction we should be taking. In fact, the compass is there. To find it, you need only look inside yourself to discover your soul's purest desire, its dream for your life. ~ deepak-chopra, @wisdomtrove
254:You have a God who hears you, the power of love behind you, the Holy Spirit within you, and all of heaven ahead of you. If you have the Shepherd, you have grace for every sin, direction for every turn, a candle for every corner and an anchor for every storm. You have everything you need. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
255:When you are on a journey, it is certainly helpful to know where you are going or at least the general direction in which you are moving, but don’t forget: The only thing that is ultimately real about your journey is the step that you are taking at this moment. That’s all there ever is. ~ eckhart-tolle, @wisdomtrove
256:Time has two aspects. There is the arrow, the running river, without which there is no change, no progress, or direction, or creation. And there is the circle or the cycle, without which there is chaos, meaningless succession of instants, a world without clocks or seasons or promises. ~ ursula-k-le-guin, @wisdomtrove
257:Imagine setting out for a walk with no particular purpose — you might go in one direction because there’s a nice explosion of flowers over there, but then explore a different direction when you see someone playing music, then go in another direction because you’re curious about what’s there. ~ leo-babauta, @wisdomtrove
258:The more tremendous the divinity is represented, the more tame and submissive do men become his ministers: And the more unaccountable the measures of acceptance required by him, the more necessary does it become to abandon our natural reason, and yield to their ghostly guidance and direction. ~ david-hume, @wisdomtrove
259:The sense of community does not arise out of collective movement, nor from conforming to some group direction. Quite the contrary. Each individual tends to use the opportunity to become all that he or she can become. Separateness and diversity - the uniqueness of being "me" - are experienced ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
260:The mind can go either direction under stress toward positive or toward negative: on or off. Think of it as a spectrum whose extremes are unconsciousness at the negative end and hyperconsciousness at the positive end. The way the mind will lean under stress is strongly influenced by training. ~ frank-herbert, @wisdomtrove
261:My life force energy is a connection to God. It's a connection to all that is. I am part of all that is, and what comes through me is for my highest good. When you know that, you will be guided to go in the direction you need to go, and then it's about listening to, and acting on, the guidance. ~ anita-moorjani, @wisdomtrove
262:I used to spend so much time reacting and responding to everyone else that my life had no direction. Other people's lives, problems, and wants set the course for my life. Once I realized it was okay for me to think about and identify what I wanted, remarkable things began to take place in my life. ~ melody-beattie, @wisdomtrove
263:When we understand that what we deeply long for can never be found in an object... substance... activity... relationship or state... our longing naturally and effortlessly loses its direction and dynamism and flows back to its source, and is revealed as the happiness for which we were in search. ~ rupert-spira, @wisdomtrove
264:You may readily judge whether you are a child of God or a hypocrite by seeing in what direction your soul turns in seasons of severe trial. The hypocrite flies to the world and finds a sort of comfort there. But the child of God runs to his Father and expects consolation only from the Lord's hand. ~ charles-spurgeon, @wisdomtrove
265:Those who desire to remain intoxicated by Reality do not require artificial intoxicants. Indulging in false things will only increase falsity, for every direction is indeed infinite. Those who desire the truly genuine Thing proceed of themselves with great intensity so as to progress in their sadhana. ~ anandamayi-ma, @wisdomtrove
266:Once we are bound together to our brothers by a common good that is outside us, then we can breathe. Experience teaches us that love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze in the same direction. There is no comradeship except through unity on the same rope, climbing towards the same peak. ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove
267:One thing is certain: the call of Christ is always a promotion. Were Christ to call a king from his throne to preach the gospel to some tribe of aborigines, that king would be elevated above anything he had known before. Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
268:The ego promotes turmoil because it wants to substantiate your separateness from everyone, including God. It will push you in the direction of judgment and comparison, and cause you to insist on being right and best.  You know your highest self by listening to the voice that only wants you to be at peace.   ~ wayne-dyer, @wisdomtrove
269:Your life, my life, the life of each one of us is going to serve as either a warning or an example. A warning of the consequences of neglect, self-pity, lack of direction and ambition... or an example of talent put to use, of discipline self-imposed, and of objectives clearly perceived and intensely pursued. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
270:In every moment, we make a choice about which direction we are going to go. Once we realize that this is a self-correcting and self-organizing universe, then we don't have to look any further than our own life circumstances, the relationships and situations that we are in, to begin the transformation. ~ marianne-williamson, @wisdomtrove
271:Very well, then: why are you attached to any one book, or to the words and ways of one saint when he himself tells you to let them go and walk in simplicity? To hang on to him as if to make a method of him is to contradict him and to go in the opposite direction to the one in which he would have you travel. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
272:Yes, there is something in me hateful, repulsive," thought Ljewin, as he came away from the Schtscherbazkijs', and walked in the direction of his brother's lodgings. "And I don't get on with other people. Pride, they say. No, I have no pride. If I had any pride, I should not have put myself in such a position". ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
273:The whole purpose of spiritual direction is to penetrate beneath the surface of a man's life, to get behind the façade of conventional gestures and attitudes which he presents to the world, and to bring out his inner spiritual freedom, his inmost truth, which is what we call the likeness of Christ in his soul. ~ thomas-merton, @wisdomtrove
274:I find that life, day by day, is composed of at least one joy, one problem and one sorrow. Then there are the smaller ingredients: you always learn something, whether useful or harmful - that is difficult to analyze until later; you always give something; you alwayou always grow a little in one direction or another. ~ anais-nin, @wisdomtrove
275:Knowledge is indivisible. When people grow wise in one direction, they are sure to make it easier for themselves to grow wise in other directions as well. On the other hand, when they split up knowledge, concentrate on their own field, and scorn and ignore other fields, they grow less wise-even in their own field. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
276:I am a conscious wave, rising and falling from the unconscious depths each day when I wake and sleep. While I'm awake, I believe that I'm choosing my direction as I make my journey of life before I crash upon the shoreline of death. But actually everything I do is no more than an impersonal eddy in the great sea of being. ~ tim-freke, @wisdomtrove
277:The problem is whether we are determined to go in the direction of compassion or not. If we are, then can we reduce the suffering to a minimum? If I lose my direction, I have to look for the North Star, and I go to the north. That does not mean I expect to arrive at the North Star. I just want to go in that direction. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
278:An unfinished coffin on black tressels, which stood in the middle of the shop, looked so gloomy and death-like that a cold tremble came over him, every time his eyes wandered in the direction of the dismal object: from which he almost expected to see some frightful form slowly rear its head, to drive him mad with terror. ~ charles-dickens, @wisdomtrove
279:The Earth would only have to move a few million kilometers sunward-or starward-for the delicate balance of climate to be destroyed. The Antarctic icecap would melt and flood all low-lying land; or the oceans would freeze and the whole world would be locked in eternal winter. Just a nudge in either direction would be enough. ~ arthur-c-carke, @wisdomtrove
280:It is true that we shall not be able to reach perfection, but in our struggle toward it we shall strengthen our characters and give stability to our ideas, so that, whilst ever advancing calmly in the same direction, we shall be rendered capable of applying the faculties with which we have been gifted to the best possible account. ~ confucius, @wisdomtrove
281:Religion, politics, society are exploiting you, and you are being conditioned by them; you are being forced in a particular direction. You are not human beings; you are mere cogs in a machine. You suffer patiently, submitting to the cruelties of environment, when you, individually, have the possibilities of changing them. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
282:During the Vietnam War, which lasted longer than any war we've ever been in - and which we lost - every respectable artist in this country was against the war. It was like a laser beam. We were all aimed in the same direction. The power of this weapon turns out to be that of a custard pie dropped from a stepladder six feet high. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
283:We may not know what to do, but it is sufficient to know the One who knows. We all like specific direction; however, when we don't have it, knowing God is faithful and ever true to His promise, and that He has promised to be with us always, is comforting and keeps us stable until His time is right to speak to us more specifically. ~ joyce-meyer, @wisdomtrove
284:The highest knowledge is to know that we are surrounded by mystery. Neither knowledge nor hope for the future can be the pivot of our life or determine its direction. It is intended to be solely determined by our allowing ourselves to be gripped by the ethical God, who reveals Himself in us, and by our yielding our will to His. ~ albert-schweitzer, @wisdomtrove
285:The president is that invisible force that makes a school of fish suddenly change direction, so that everyone &
286:The greatest step toward success is self confidence. The greatest builder of self confidence is self esteem, and self esteem comes from doing the daily things you know you should do. Your self esteem will start to soar when you make some critical decisions - decisions to walk a new road, to start a new direction, to start a new discipline. ~ jim-rohn, @wisdomtrove
287:Never had I understood that I command, with absolute authority, the ship of my life! I decide its mission and rules and discipline, at my word waits every tool and sail, every cannon, the strength of every soul on board. I'm master of a team of passionate skills to sail me through hell's own jaws the second I nod the direction to steer. ~ richard-bach, @wisdomtrove
288:Using the word political’ in the widest possible sense. Desire to push the world in a certain direction, to alter other peoples’ idea of the kind of society that they should strive after. Once again, no book is genuinely free from political bias. The opinion that art should have nothing to do with politics is itself a political attitude. ~ george-orwell, @wisdomtrove
289:... the reason for [this age's] anxiety and unrest is because in one direction, &
290:You have to dare to live through the pain and struggle. Acknowledge your anguish but do not let it pull you out of yourself. Hold on to your chosen direction, your discipline, your prayer, your work, your guides, and trust that one day love will have conquered enough of you that even the most fearful part will allow love to cast out all fear. ~ henri-nouwen, @wisdomtrove
291:How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
292:Say to the Source within you. How is it that you are seeing this? Because the negative emotion means there’s two points of view going on, your source energy point of view and the point of view that you hold. Just listen. And you will hear the call of Source. You will hear Source giving you specific direction right there, right then, in that moment. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove
293:Fortunately Jesus didn't leave [the disciples]-or any of us-without hope or direction. Where we fail, Jesus succeeded. The only One who as able to recognize and follow His purpose from the beginning was Jesus. He alone was able to obey consistently and please God completely. And His divine mission was to make a way for each of us to do the same. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
294:And this I believe: that the free, exploring mind of the individual human is the most valuable thing in the world. And this I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. And this I must fight against: any idea, religion, or government which limits or destroys the individual. This is what I am and what I am about. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
295:Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove
296:I think I've actually returned to a kind of realism about how the world works. That's helpful. Because in a way, no matter who's in charge of the corporation that the United States is, the direction in which it is taken seems to be inexorable. So, you just get the job of being the front man for four or eight years. Now, most people realize that's what you are. ~ alice-walker, @wisdomtrove
297:I cannot tell if what the world considers ‘happiness’ is happiness or not. All I know is that when I consider the way they go about attaining it, I see them carried away headlong, grim and obsessed, in the general onrush of the human herd, unable to stop themselves or to change their direction. All the while they claim to be just on the point of attaining happiness. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove
298:Facing personal truths and purging yourself of addictions or manipulative habits require strength, courage, humility, faith, and other qualities of a soul with stamina, because you are not just changing yourself; you are changing your universe. Your soul is a compass. Change one coordinate in your spiritual compass and you change your entire life's direction. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove
299:As soon as I arrived I made an attempt to find my host but the two or three people of whom I asked his whereabouts stared at me in such an amazed way and denied so vehemently an knowledge of his movements that I slunk off in the direction of the cocktail table&
300:The realization that something is not as you want it to be is an important first step, but once you have identified that, the faster you are able to turn your attention in the direction of a solution, the better, because a continuing exploration of the problem will prevent you from finding the solution. The problem is a different vibrational frequency than the solution. ~ esther-hicks, @wisdomtrove
301:The healing of ourselves is the healing of the whole nation. Society is only a manifestation of our collective consciousness and our collective consciousness has a lot of fear, violence and hatred in it. ... It is possible to transform our heart... Not much time is needed... (the transformation can be born) the moment you vow to go in the direction of peace and service. ~ thich-nhat-hanh, @wisdomtrove
302:Once in awhile throughout the day... let go into full acceptance of the present moment, including how you are feeling and what you perceive to be happening... Give yourself permission to allow this moment to be exactly as it is, and allow yourself to be exactly as you are. Then, when you're ready, move in the direction your heart tells you to go, mindfully and with resolution. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove
303:Today is a new day. It's a day you have never seen before and will never see again. Stop telling yourself the &
304:Fear begins and ends with the desire to be secure; inward and outward security, with the desire to be certain, to have permanency. The continuity of permanence is sought in every direction, in virtue, in relationship, in action, in experience, in knowledge, in outward and inward things. To find security and be secure is the everlasting cry. It is this insistent demand that breeds fear. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
305:I believe it is quite possible for us to obtain an outer peace at the present time. Historically speaking, when human beings are faced with the choice between destruction and change, they are apt to choose change, and it's about the only thing that will make them choose change. So we have the possibility at the present time to take a different direction in the world - the possibility exists! ~ peace-pilgrim, @wisdomtrove
306:Meditation is simply about being yourself and knowing something about who that is. It is about coming to realize that you are on a path whether you like it or not, namely, the path that is your life. Meditation may help us see that this path we call our life has direction; that it is always unfolding, moment by moment; and that what happens now, in this moment, influences what happens next. ~ jon-kabat-zinn, @wisdomtrove
307:From another direction he felt the sensation of being a sheep startled by a flying saucer, but it was virtually indistinguishable from the feeling of being a sheep startled by anything else it ever encountered, for they were creatures who learned very little on their journey through life, and would be startled to see the sun rising in the morning, and astonished by all the green stuff in the fields. ~ douglas-adams, @wisdomtrove
308:Why, oh why must one grow up, why must one inherit this heavy, numbing responsibility of living an undiscovered life? Out of the nothingness and the undifferentiated mass, to make something of herself! But what? In the obscurity and pathlessness to take a direction! But whither? How take even one step? And yet, how stand still? This was torment indeed, to inherit the responsibility of one’s own life. ~ d-h-lawrence, @wisdomtrove
309:Liberalism, contrary to popular belief, is facing backward in considering the injustice of its ancestors. Conservatism, contrary to popular belief, is facing forward in considering the psychology of its descendants. Definitively, it seems in the modern world that neither side really knows which direction it's facing, and men of the sharpest judgment are simply turned off from picking either of the poisons. ~ criss-jami, @wisdomtrove
310:It was not the thought that I was so unloved that froze me. I had taught myself to do without love. It was not the thought that God was cruel that froze me. I had taught myself never to expect anything from Him. What froze me was the fact that I had absolutely no reason to move in any direction. What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity. Now even that had flickered out. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
311:We went all the way down the Himalayan chain for a day and a half. That was magnificent, except the Chinese told us they were going to shoot us down if we came out the far end. So I spent a lot of my time contacting former Prime Minister Tony Blair begging him to tell the Chinese we were coming in this direction by mistake and could he please say we have no nasty motives for flying into their territory. ~ richard-branson, @wisdomtrove
312:A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. . . It is only the full emergence of the soul, the full descent of the native light and power of the Spirit and the consequent replacement or transformation and uplifting of our insufficient mental and vital nature by a spiritual and supramental Supernature that can effect this evolutionary miracle. ~ sri-aurobindo, @wisdomtrove
313:Often, self-imposed constraints, or boundaries, force you to think differently about challenges, leading to more practical ideas and innovations. Instead of thinking ‘outside the box’ and looking in every possible direction, get inside one box – a specific problem that needs a resolution, a smaller space where big changes can be made, etc. – and focus your creative attention on making a difference.  ~ marc-and-angel-chernoff, @wisdomtrove
314:How is the mind which functions on knowledge how is the brain which is recording all the time to end, to see the importance of recording and not let it move in any other direction? Very simply: you insult me, you hurt me, by word, gesture, by an actual act; that leaves a mark on the brain which is memory. That memory is knowledge, that knowledge is going to interfere in my meeting you next time obviously. ~ jiddu-krishnamurti, @wisdomtrove
315:Books are good but they are only maps. Reading a book by direction of a man I read that so many inches of rain fell during the year. Then he told me to take the book and squeeze it between my hands. I did so and not a drop of water came from it. It was the idea only that the book conveyed. So we can get good from books, from the temple, from the church, from anything, so long as it leads us onward and upward. ~ swami-vivekananda, @wisdomtrove
316:You could take all the gold that's ever been mined, and it would fill a cube 67 feet in each direction. For what that's worth at current gold prices, you could buy all - not some - all of the farmland in the United States. Plus, you could buy 10 Exxon Mobils, plus have $1 trillion of walking-around money. Or you could have a big cube of metal. Which would you take? Which is going to produce more value? ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
317:As a cultural-intellectual power and a moral ideal, collectivism died in World War II. If we are still rolling in its direction, it is only by the inertia of a void and the momentum of disintegration. A social movement that began with the ponderous, brain-cracking, dialectical constructs of Hegel and Marx, and ends up with a horde of morally unwashed children stamping their foot and shrieking: "I want it now is through." ~ ayn-rand, @wisdomtrove
318:Who would think of buying or selling a private business because of someone's guess on the stock market? The availability of a quotation for your business interest (stock) should always be an asset to be utilized if desired. If it gets silly enough in either direction, you take advantage of it. Its availability should never be turned into a livability whereby its periodic aberrations in turn formulate your judgements. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
319:Slowly I discovered the secret of my art. It consists of a meditation on nature, on the expression of a dream which is always inspired by reality. With more involvement and regularity, I learned to push each study in a certain direction. Little by little the notion that painting is a means of expression asserted itself, and that one can express the same thing in several ways. Exactitude is not truth, Delacroix liked to say. ~ henri-matisse, @wisdomtrove
320:Alas," said the mouse, "the whole world is growing smaller every day. At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into." "You only need to change your direction," said the cat, and ate it up. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
321:A voice had begun to sing. It was very far away and Digory found it hard to decide from what direction it was coming. Sometimes it seemed to come from all directions at once. Sometimes he almost thought it was coming out of the earth beneath them. Its lower notes were deep enough to be the voice of the earth herself. There were no words. It was hardly a tune. But it was beyond comparison, the most beautiful sound he had ever heard. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
322:The great body of our citizens shoot less as times goes on. We should encourage rifle practice among schoolboys, and indeed among all classes, as well as in the military services by every means in our power. Thus, and not otherwise, may we be able to assist in preserving peace in the world... The first step in the direction of preparation to avert war if possible, and to be fit for war if it should come is to teach men to shoot! ~ theodore-roosevelt, @wisdomtrove
323:There is only one law of Nature-the second law of thermodynamics-which recognises a distinction between past and future more profound than the difference of plus and minus. It stands aloof from all the rest. ... It opens up a new province of knowledge, namely, the study of organisation; and it is in connection with organisation that a direction of time-flow and a distinction between doing and undoing appears for the first time. ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove
324:My senses of space, of distance, and of direction entirely vanished. When I looked for the ground I sometimes looked down, sometimes up, sometimes left, sometimes right. I thought I was very high up when I would suddenly be thown to earth in a near vertical spin. I thought I was very low to the ground and I was pulled up to 3,000 feet in two minutes by the 500-horsepower motor. It danced, it pushed, it tossed. . . . Ah! la la! ~ antoine-de-saint-exupery, @wisdomtrove
325:To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction. ~ caroline-myss, @wisdomtrove
326:Without being bound to the fulfillment of promises, we would never be able to keep our identities; we would be condemned to wanderhelplessly and without direction in the darkness of each man's lonely heart, caught in its contradictions and equivocalities&
327:In the theory of psycho-analysis we have no hesitation in assuming that the course taken by mental events is automatically regulated by the pleasure principle. We believe, that is to say, that the course of those events is invariably set in motion by an unpleasurable tension, and that it takes a direction such that its final outcome coincides with a lowering of that tension that is, with an avoidance of unpleasure or a production of pleasure. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
328:There are innumerable worlds of different sizes. In some there is neither sun not moon, in others they are larger than in ours and others have more than one. These worlds are at irregular distances, more in one direction and less in another, and some are flourishing, others declining. Here they come into being, there they die, and they are distroyed by collision with one another. Some of the worlds have no animal or vegetable life nor any water. ~ democritus, @wisdomtrove
329:To feel the suffering and then to know the pain of the unnecessariness of it. That right there has me in its grip. The only way through that is serious prayer. I can't get through it any other way. I've got to believe that that's making a difference somehow. I can't see the difference, but I've got to believe it does, because in some way it lets me sleep at night. My only other alternative is to become angry, and I can't go that direction. ~ norman-vincent-peale, @wisdomtrove
330:Like myself, all Americans have a deep concern for the well-being of Iran. With them I have watched closely your courageous efforts, your steadfastness over the past difficult years, and with them I too have hoped that you might achieve the goals you so earnestly desire. The attainment of an oil settlement along the lines which have been announced should be a significant step in the direction of the realization of your aspirations for your people. ~ dwight-eisenhower, @wisdomtrove
331:who can duly adore that Love which will open the high gates to a prodigal who is brought in kicking, struggling, resentful, and darting his eyes in every direction for a chance of escape? The words compelle intrare, compel them to come in, have been so abused by wicked men that we shudder at them; but, properly understood, they plumb the depth of the Divine mercy. The hardness of God is kinder than the softness of man, and His compulsion is our liberation. ~ c-s-lewis, @wisdomtrove
332:We usually look outside ourselves for heroes and teachers. It has not occurred to most people that they may already be the role model they seek. The wholeness they are looking for may be trapped within themselves by beliefs, attitudes, and self-doubt. But our wholeness exists in us now. Trapped though it may be, it can be called upon for guidance, direction, and most fundamentally, comfort. It can be remembered. Eventually we may come to live by it. ~ rachel-naomi-remen, @wisdomtrove
333:One might compare the relation of the ego to the id with that between a rider and his horse. The horse provides the locomotor energy, and the rider has the prerogative of determining the goal and of guiding the movements of his powerful mount towards it. But all too often in the relations between the ego and the id we find a picture of the less ideal situation in which the rider is obliged to guide his horse in the direction in which it itself wants to go. ~ sigmund-freud, @wisdomtrove
334:Adults look upon a child as something empty that is to be filled through their own efforts, as something inert and helpless for which they must do everything, as something lacking an inner guide and in constant need of inner direction. . . . An adult who acts in this way, even though he may be convinced that he is filled with zeal, love, and a spirit of sacrifice on behalf of his child, unconsciously suppresses the development of the child's own personality. ~ maria-montessori, @wisdomtrove
335:His head was swimming, and he was far from certain even of the direction they had been going in when he had his fall. He guessed as well as he could, and crawled along for a good way, till suddenly his hand met what felt like a tiny ring of cold metal lying on the floor of the tunnel. It was a turning point in his career, but he did not know it. He put the ring in his pocket almost without thinking; certainly it did not seem of any particular use at the moment. ~ j-r-r-tolkien, @wisdomtrove
336:[Our goal] is to help revive America's traditional values: faith, family, neighborhood, work and freedom. Government has no business enforcing these values but neither must it seek, as it did in the recent past, to suppress or replace them. That only robbed us of our tiller and set us adrift. Helping to restore these values will bring new strength, direction and dignity to our lives and to the life of our nation. It's on these values that we'll best build our future. ~ ronald-reagan, @wisdomtrove
337:When you're lost in those woods, it sometimes takes you a while to realize that you are lost. For the longest time, you can convince yourself that you've just wandered off the path, that you'll find your way back to the trailhead any moment now. Then night falls again and again, and you still have no idea where you are, and it's time to admit that you have bewildered yourself so far off the path that you don't even know from which direction the sun rises anymore. ~ elizabeth-gilbert, @wisdomtrove
338:Cheshire Cat: If I were looking for a white rabbit, I'd ask the Mad Hatter. Alice: The Mad Hatter? Oh, no no no... Cheshire Cat: Or, you could ask the March Hare, in that direction. Alice: Oh, thank you. I think I'll see him... Cheshire Cat: Of course, he's mad, too. Alice: But I don't want to go among mad people. Cheshire Cat: Oh, you can't help that. Most everyone's mad here. [laughs maniacally; starts to disappear] Cheshire Cat: You may have noticed that I'm not all there myself. ~ lewis-carroll, @wisdomtrove
339:In proportion as the people are accustomed to manage their affairs by their own active intervention, instead of leaving them to the government, their desires will turn to repelling tyranny, rather than to tyrannizing: while in proportion as all ready initiative and direction resides in the government, and individuals habitually feel and act as under its perpetual tutelage, popular institutions develop in them not the desire of freedom, but an unmeasured appetite for place and power. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
340:What is now happening to the people of the East as of the West is like what happens to every individual when he passes from childhood to adolescence and from youth to manhood. He loses what had hitherto guided his life and lives without direction, not having found a new standard suitable to his age, and so he invents all sorts of occupations, cares, distractions, and stupefactions to divert his attention from the misery and senselessness of his life. Such a condition may last a long time. ~ leo-tolstoy, @wisdomtrove
341:Above all, it is imperative to extirpate the idea that any fantastic, mysterious practices are required for the attainment of higher knowledge. It must be clearly realized that a start has to be made with the thoughts and feelings with which we continually live, and that these feelings and thoughts must merely be given a new direction. Everyone must say to himself: In my own world of thought and feeling the deepest mysteries lie hidden, only hitherto I have been unable to perceive them. ~ rudolf-steiner, @wisdomtrove
342:I was twenty-one at the time, about to turn twenty-two. No prospect of graduating soon, and yet no reason to quit school. Caught in the most curiously depressing circumstances. For months I'd been stuck, unable to take one step in any new direction. The world kept moving on; I alone was at a standstill. In the autumn, everything took on a desolate cast, the colors swiftly fading before my eyes. The sunlight, the smell of the grass, the faintest patter of rain, everything got on my nerves. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
343:I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was. We formed sort of a laser beam of protest. Every painter, every writer, every stand-up comedian, every composer, every novelist, every poet aimed in the same direction. Afterwards, the power of this incredible new weapon dissipated. ~ kurt-vonnegut, @wisdomtrove
344:There is one characteristic of the present direction of public opinion, peculiarly calculated to make it intolerant of any marked demonstration of individuality. The general average of mankind are not only moderate in intellect, but also moderate in inclinations: they have no tastes or wishes strong enough to incline them to do anything unusual, and they consequently do not understand those who have, and class all such with the wild and intemperate whom they are accustomed to look down upon. ~ john-stuart-mill, @wisdomtrove
345:Facilitative attitudes (and skills) can help a therapist gain entry into the group Freedom from a desire to control the outcome, and respect for the capacity of the group, and skills in releasing individual expression Openness to all attitudes no matter how extreme or unrealistic they may seem Acceptance of the problems experienced by the group where they are clearly defined as issues Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future ~ carl-rogers, @wisdomtrove
346:While looking with the mind, you cannot go beyond it. To go beyond, you must look away from the mind and its contents.  Just look away from all that happens in your mind and bring it to the feeling &
347:It is quite clear that as long as the nations of the world spend most of their energy, money, and emotional strength in quarreling with words and weapons, a true offensive against the common problems that threaten human survival is not very likely. A world government that can channel human efforts in the direction of the great solutions seems desirable, even essential. Naturally, such a world government should be a federal one, with regional and local autonomy safeguarded and with cultural diversity promoted. ~ isaac-asimov, @wisdomtrove
348:Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heart - one of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. Who has not, a hundred times, found himself committing a vile or a silly action, for no other reason than because he knows he should not? Have we not a perpetual inclination, in the teeth of our best judgment, to violate that which is Law, merely because we understand it to be such? ~ edgar-allan-poe, @wisdomtrove
349:Math is like water. It has a lot of difficult theories, of course, but its basic logic is very simple. Just as water flows from high to low over the shortest possible distance, figures can only flow in one direction. You just have to keep your eye on them for the route to reveal itself. That’s all it takes. You don’t have to do a thing. Just concentrate your attention and keep your eyes open, and the figures make everything clear to you. In this whole, wide world, the only thing that treats me so kindly is math. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
350:In on summer they have done their business... they have completely pulled down to the ground their monarchy, their church, their nobility, their law, their revenue, their army, their navy, their commerce, their arts, and their manufactures... destroyed all balances and counterpoises which serve to fix a state and give it steady direction, and then they melted down the whole into one incongrous mass of mob and democracy... the people, along with their political servitude, have thrown off the yoke of law and morals. ~ edmund-burke, @wisdomtrove
351:I stand on the end platform of the tram and am completely unsure of my footing in this world, in this town, in my family. Not even casually could I indicate any claims that I might rightly advance in any direction. I have not even any defense to offer for standing on this platform, holding on to this strap, letting myself be carried along by this tram, nor for the people who give way to the tram or walk quietly along or stand gazing into shop windows. Nobody asks me to put up a defense, indeed, but that is irrelevant. ~ franz-kafka, @wisdomtrove
352:And it came to pass that AC learned how to reverse the direction of entropy. But there was now no man to whom AC might give the answer of the last question. No matter. The answer&
353:Yet if we would know God and for other's sake tell what we know we must try to speak of his love. All Christians have tried but none has ever done it very well. I can no more do justice to that awesome and wonder-filled theme than a child can grasp a star. Still by reaching toward the star the child may call attention to it and even indicate the direction one must look to see it. So as I stretch my heart toward the high shining love of God someone who has not before known about it may be encouraged to look up and have hope. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
354:In terms of what has been happening recently, there have been, I think, some really interesting new instruments that have come out that sort of show me the direction of the future. Korg has introduced the - they've had a whole series now of these things called Kaoss Pads. They're wonderful because they do get your muscles working again. And what DJs do, of course, with their DJ turntables now, the CD turntables, which have pitch change and speed change and everything else. They're doing something that I think is interestingly physical. ~ brian-eno, @wisdomtrove
355:In this world, there is no absolute good, no absolute evil," the man said. "Good and evil are not fixed, stable entities, but are continually trading places. A good may be transformed into an evil in the next second. And vice versa. Such was the way of the world that Dostoevsky depicted in The Brothers Karamazov. The most important thing is to maintain the balance between the constantly moving good and evil. If you lean too much in either direction, it becomes difficult to maintain actual morals. Indeed, balance itself is the good. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
356:No matter how clear things might become in the forest of story, there was never a clear-cut solution, as there was in math. The role of a story was, in the broadest terms, to transpose a problem into another form. Depending on the nature and the direction of the problem, a solution might be suggested in the narrative. Tengo would return to the real world with that solution in hand. It was like a piece of paper bearing the indecipherable text of a magic spell. It served no immediate practical purpose, but it contained a possibility. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
357:The young have exalted notions, because they have not been humbled by life or learned its necessary limitations; moreover, their hopeful disposition makes them think themselves equal to great things—and that means having exalted notions. They would always rather do noble deeds than useful ones: Their lives are regulated more by moral feeling than by reasoning... . All their mistakes are in the direction of doing things excessively and vehemently. They overdo everything; they love too much, hate too much, and the same with everything else. ~ aristotle, @wisdomtrove
358:The goal of the &
359:Our mistake is that we want God to send revival on our terms. We want to get the power of God into our hands, to call it to us that it may work for us in promoting and furthering our kind of Christianity. We want still to be in charge, guiding the chariot through the religious sky in the direction we want it to go, shouting "Glory to God," but modestly accepting a share of the glory for ourselves in a nice inoffensive sort of way. We are calling on God to send fire on our altars, completely ignoring the fact that they are OUR altars and not God's. ~ aiden-wilson-tozer, @wisdomtrove
360:Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
361:Progress, far from consisting in change, depends on retentiveness. When change is absolute there remains no being to improve and no direction is set for possible improvement: and when experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it. In the first stage of life the mind is frivolous and easily distracted; it misses progress by failing in consecutiveness and persistence. This is the condition of children and barbarians, in which instinct has learned nothing from experience. ~ george-santayana, @wisdomtrove
362:For example: (1) As if governed by Newton's First Law of Motion, an institution will resist any change in its current direction; (2) Just as work expands to fill available time, corporate projects or acquisitions will materialize to soak up available funds; (3) Any business craving of the leader, however foolish, will be quickly supported by detailed rate-of-return and strategic studies prepared by his troops; and (4) The behavior of peer companies, whether they are expanding, acquiring, setting executive compensation or whatever, will be mindlessly imitated. ~ warren-buffet, @wisdomtrove
363:If the Tao could be served up, everyone would serve it up to their lords. If the Tao could be offered, there is no one who would not offer it to their parents. If the Tao could be spoken of, there is no one in the world who would not speak of it to their brothers and sisters. if the Tao could be passed on, there is no one who would not pass it on to their heirs. However, it obviously cannot be so and the reason is as follows. If there is no true centre within to receive it, it cannot remain; if there is no true direction outside to guide it, it cannot be received. ~ zhuangzi, @wisdomtrove
364:Fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You change direction but the sandstorm chases you. You turn again, but the storm adjusts. Over and over you play this out, like some ominous dance with death just before dawn. Why? Because this storm isn't something that blew in from far away, something that has nothing to do with you. This storm is you. Something inside of you. So all you can do is give in to it, step right inside the storm, closing your eyes and plugging up your ears so the sand doesn't get in, and walk through it, step by step. ~ haruki-murakami, @wisdomtrove
365:I believe there are techniques of the human mind whereby, in its dark deep, problems are examined, rejected or accepted. Such activities sometimes concern facets a man does not know he has. How often one goes to sleep troubled and full of pain, not knowing what causes the travail, and in the morning a whole new direction and a clearness is there, maybe the results of the black reasoning. And again there are mornings when ecstasy bubbles in the blood, and the stomach and chest are tight and electric with joy, and nothing in the thoughts to justify it or cause it. ~ john-steinbeck, @wisdomtrove
366:I confess . . . that I am not myself very much concerned with the question of influence, or with those publicists who have impressed their names upon the public by catching the morning tide and rowing very vast in the direction in which the current was flowing; but rather that there should always be a few writers preoccupied in penetrating to the core of the matter, in trying to arrive at the truth and to set it forth, without too much hope, without ambition to alter the immediate course of affairs, and without being downcast or defeated when nothing appears to ensue. ~ t-s-eliot, @wisdomtrove
367:Because the Holy Spirit is God, we feel Him as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. When He does that, He uses us. He melts us in relationships. He molds us in the pursuit and the direction of His will. He fills us with power and the perseverance to keep at it. He uses as He controls our circumstances and transforms our lives. Ask the Spirit of God to use you, just as you are, with the gifts and abilities that He's given you. Secure in the confidence that God is in control of your life, you will be free to serve Him with joy and effectiveness. ~ charles-r-swindoll, @wisdomtrove
368:Peace happens when people pray. "Cast all your anxiety on him because he cares for you" Casting is an intentional act to relocate an object. Let this "throwing" be your first response to bad news. As you sense anxiety welling up inside you, cast it in the direction of Christ. Do so specifically and immediately. Find a promise of God that fits your problem, and build your prayer around it. These prayers of faith touch the heart of God and activate the angels of heaven. Miracles are set into motion. Your answer may not come overnight, but it will come. And you will overcome. ~ max-lucado, @wisdomtrove
369:Setting a field for synchronicity is a matter of putting yourself in a particular state of mind. It is easy to think about synchronicity intellectually, but unless you enter the state of mind where your prayer-field will help, all you will do is glimpse the coincidences every once in a while. In some situations that is enough and you will be led forward for a time, but eventually you will lose your direction. The only way to establish a constant flow of synchronicity is to stay in a state where your prayer field keeps this flow moving toward you&
370:Hence if you really want to understand yourself, you should not identify with your Facebook account or with the inner story of the self. Instead, you should observe the actual flow of body and mind. You will see thoughts, emotions and desires appear and disappear without much reason and without any command from you, just as different winds blow from this or that direction and mess up your hair. And just as you are not the winds, so also you are not the jumble of thoughts, emotions and desires you experience, and you are certainly not the sanitised story you tell about them with hindsight. ~ yuval-noah-harari, @wisdomtrove
371:I find parallels in nature to be a beautiful reflection of grand orchestration. One of these parallels is of snowflakes and us. We, too, are all headed in the same direction. We are being driven by a universal force to the same destination. We are all individuals taking different journeys and along our journey, we sometimes bump into each other, we cross paths, we become altered... we take different physical forms. But at all times we too are 100% perfectly imperfect. At every given moment we are absolutely perfect for what is required for our journey. I’m not perfect for your journey and you’re not perfect for my journey, but I’m perfect for my journey and you’re perfect for your journey. We’re heading to the same place, we’re taking different routes, but we’re both exactly perfect the way we are. ~ steve-maraboli, @wisdomtrove
372:It is of interest to inquire what happens when the aviator’s speed… approximates to the velocity of light. Lengths in the direction of flight become smaller and smaller, until for the speed of light they shrink to zero. The aviator and the objects accompanying him shrink to two dimensions. We are saved the difficulty of imagining how the processes of life can go on in two dimensions, because nothing goes on. Time is arrested altogether. This is the description according to the terrestrial observer. The aviator himself detects nothing unusual; he does not perceive that he has stopped moving. He is merely waiting for the next instant to come before making the next movement; and the mere fact that time is arrested means that he does not perceive that the next instant is a long time coming. Arthur S. Eddington ~ sir-arthur-eddington, @wisdomtrove

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1:Like zero direction ~ Lisi Harrison,
2:settle on one direction ~ John Flanagan,
3:People in every direction ~ Dave Matthews,
4:Direction determines destination. ~ Jim Rohn,
5:Which direction were they headed? ~ Anonymous,
6:A small step in a good direction. ~ Helen Hunt,
7:In that direction only pain lies. ~ John Boyne,
8:A clock only turns one direction ~ Nancy E Turner,
9:Direction is more important than speed. ~ Unknown,
10:What else is belief but direction? ~ Mohsin Hamid,
11:I fart in your general direction. ~ Graham Chapman,
12:It is a direction not a destination. ~ Carl Rogers,
13:Err in the direction of kindness. ~ George Saunders,
14:the knife in my direction. “Your ~ Karen McQuestion,
15:You have to stop to change direction. ~ Erich Fromm,
16:acid has no implicit moral direction. ~ Martin A Lee,
17:I ran very fast in the wrong direction. ~ Lauryn Hill,
18:My eccentricity became direction. ~ Jean Paul Gaultier,
19:Play needs direction as well as work. ~ Elbert Hubbard,
20:The wisest men follow their own direction. ~ Euripides,
21:going in opposite direction. When United ~ Ryan Holiday,
22:There's only one direction you can coast. ~ Brian Tracy,
23:Time only goes in that one direction. ~ Kathleen Rooney,
24:Your heart knows the way. Run in that direction. ~ Rumi,
25:Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~ Sydney J Harris,
26:I think we're going in the right direction. ~ Jason Kidd,
27:Happiness is a direction, not a place. ~ Penelope Douglas,
28:XML is a giant step in no direction at all. ~ Erik Naggum,
29:Happiness is not a place - it is a direction. ~ Bill Sands,
30:I have a terrible sense of direction. ~ Elizabeth McGovern,
31:There must be consistency in direction. ~ W Edwards Deming,
32:His glassy green eyes glint in my direction. ~ Tahereh Mafi,
33:You will move in the direction you are facing. ~ Og Mandino,
34:Discipline without direction is drudgery. ~ Donald S Whitney,
35:...go in the direction your head is pointed in. ~ Jung Chang,
36:I did find my direction at an early age. ~ Michelle Williams,
37:Sin is not just action. It's life direction. ~ Mark Driscoll,
38:there is direction but there is no destination ~ Carl Rogers,
39:We must travel in the direction of our fear. ~ John Berryman,
40:You have to stop in order to change direction. ~ Erich Fromm,
41:Your direction is a result of your perception. ~ Todd Duncan,
42:A country without vision runs to every direction. ~ Toba Beta,
43:If you lose direction,
go to a higher ground. ~ Toba Beta,
44:there is direction but there is no destination ~ Carl R Rogers,
45:Tomorrow's destiny becomes today's direction. ~ John C Maxwell,
46:Chickens have an uncanny sense of direction. ~ Daniel Pinkwater,
47:...Jane had written the direction remarkably ill. ~ Jane Austen,
48:The direction of life is from duality to unity. ~ Deepak Chopra,
49:The future is not a destination—it is a direction. ~ Ed Catmull,
50:All chance, direction, which thou canst not see ~ Alexander Pope,
51:I just put the reflexes in the proper direction. ~ Angelo Dundee,
52:The Internet is the wrong direction for music. ~ John Mellencamp,
53:The only direction you should ever move is forward. ~ Kati Wilde,
54:Time moves in one direction, memory in another. ~ William Gibson,
55:A good bassist determines the direction of any band. ~ Ron Carter,
56:Always turn your wheel in the direction of the skid. ~ Jim Carrey,
57:Compass rules direction; Decision rules life! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
58:Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension. ~ Jaggi Vasudev,
59:The future is not a destination - it is a direction. ~ Ed Catmull,
60:Along with the talent, you also need direction. ~ Sachin Tendulkar,
61:Direction—not intention—determines our destination. ~ Andy Stanley,
62:Movement in new direction helps find new cheese. ~ Spencer Johnson,
63:I have a really terrible sense of direction. ~ Joseph Gordon Levitt,
64:True virtue is life under the direction of reason. ~ Baruch Spinoza,
65:Your brain is waiting for you to give it direction. ~ Deepak Chopra,
66:conversation to continue in the direction it was going. ~ Eve Carter,
67:Direction, not intention determines your destination. ~ Andy Stanley,
68:In many ways Roy Keane is bigger than One Direction. ~ Kevin Kilbane,
69:Like the sun, life spread its light in all direction. ~ Paulo Coelho,
70:Our heads are round so thought can change direction ~ Allen Ginsberg,
71:What's in store for me in the direction I don't take? ~ Jack Kerouac,
72:A lack of direction and meaning can leave you empty. ~ Benjamin Stone,
73:driving rapidly in the direction of Reading, but ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
74:I do what I do best. I move in the opposite direction. ~ Jodi Picoult,
75:Success lies in the opposite direction of the normal pull. ~ Jim Rohn,
76:the heat of a knowing look coming from her direction. ~ Bella Forrest,
77:The husband provides direction; the wife, maintenance. ~ Myles Munroe,
78:Going in the wrong direction but making really good time ~ Cheri Huber,
79:The heart is the place where our life gets its direction. ~ Jim George,
80:Failure is a signpost to turn you in another direction. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
81:Ambition without direction is like milk without a cup. ~ Gregory Maguire,
82:No wind blows in favor of a ship without direction. ~ Seneca the Younger,
83:so i do what i do best. i move in the opposite direction. ~ Jodi Picoult,
84:I feel like I'm heading full speed in the wrong direction. ~ Ken Akamatsu,
85:It's never too late to start heading in the right direction. ~ Seth Godin,
86:The right direction leads not only to peace but to knowledge. ~ C S Lewis,
87:Wet with morning dew
I go in the direction I want ~ Santoka Taneda,
88:He had to keep moving. It didn’t matter in which direction. ~ Pete Hautman,
89:Knowledge trickles in one direction, but does not accumulate. ~ Eric Evans,
90:My desire is to let go of my ego and let in His direction. ~ Janine Turner,
91:Speed is only useful if you’re running in the right direction. ~ Pat Flynn,
92:The art of nature is all in the direction of concealment. ~ John Burroughs,
93:The mind's direction is more important than its progress. ~ Joseph Joubert,
94:Change your direction and you will change your destiny ~ Mark Victor Hansen,
95:Good direction is often based on the ability to communicate. ~ Marc E Platt,
96:I don't mind One Direction. They're harmless, aren't they? ~ Noel Gallagher,
97:Life's too much fun to have it go in just one direction. ~ Carly Rae Jepsen,
98:She carries on like One Direction has just walked into the room. ~ Sara Ney,
99:Any step away from the cross is a step in the wrong direction. ~ Greg Laurie,
100:Every time I reform in one direction I go overboard in another. ~ Mark Twain,
101:I ran away one day. He was running in the same direction. ~ Melina Marchetta,
102:I stroked your hair in a direction opposite to your journey ~ Yehuda Amichai,
103:It would be hard to get worse. I had only one direction to go. ~ Gary Larson,
104:The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
105:I don't see how you can go too far, in the right direction ~ Margaret Drabble,
106:If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ~ Laozi,
107:It is not where one is, but in what direction he is going. ~ George MacDonald,
108:It is time for a New Direction for our nation's energy policies. ~ Lois Capps,
109:Speed is irrelevant if you are going in the wrong direction. ~ Mahatma Gandhi,
110:Dreams only come true if you
point yourself in their direction ~ Tina Reber,
111:Hope without direction can all too easily turn into despair. ~ Bill Willingham,
112:If you're following your heart, you're moving in the right direction. ~ Mr Lif,
113:Like birds whose wings are broken, you live without direction! ~ Andy Biersack,
114:On any one day you can massively change the direction of your life. ~ Jim Rohn,
115:failure is just life trying to move you in a different direction. ~ Pete Wilson,
116:If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading. ~ Lao Tzu,
117:Modern life is a centrifuge; it throws people in every direction. ~ Paul Murray,
118:If you don’t change direction, you may end up where you’re heading. ~ Vi Keeland,
119:Often, out of our greatest rejection comes our greatest direction. ~ Joel Osteen,
120:Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction. ~ Alan Watts,
121:Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. ~ James Allen,
122:Therapists need to give a depressed patient support and direction. ~ Dick Cavett,
123:Unlike our minds, life is forever moving in one direction. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
124:Effort and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ John F Kennedy,
125:If you don't have a vision, you can never be focused in a direction. ~ T B Joshua,
126:It is much easier to ride a horse in the direction it is going. ~ Abraham Lincoln,
127:Paths do not only go one way. We choose which direction to take. ~ Kiersten White,
128:Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction.^ ~ Alan Watts,
129:There's that 15 quid we put on One Direction to win down the drain. ~ Alex Turner,
130:We are not retreating - we are advancing in another Direction ~ Douglas MacArthur,
131:A moment’s encounter can decide the direction of one’s entire life ~ Daisaku Ikeda,
132:Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction. ~ John F Kennedy,
133:Listen for the instruction, instead of begging for the direction. ~ Iyanla Vanzant,
134:Modern instruments were designed to throw sound all in one direction. ~ Marc Ribot,
135:Not having any real direction, one writer would lead me to another. ~ James Franco,
136:Requests give direction to love, but demands stop the flow of love. ~ Gary Chapman,
137:Stay in the center, and you will be ready to move in any direction. ~ Alan W Watts,
138:Unless you change direction, you will end up where you are headed. ~ Shigeo Shingo,
139:Use the power of your word in the direction of truth and love. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz,
140:We are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction. ~ Douglas MacArthur,
141:What is the good of religion without personal spiritual direction? ~ Thomas Merton,
142:What matters is where you want to go. Focus in the right direction! ~ Donald Trump,
143:Every direction I could see to go was just a different nightmare. ~ Chuck Palahniuk,
144:Every step is a first step if it's a step in the right direction. ~ Terry Pratchett,
145:Its never too late

...to start heading in the right direction. ~ Seth Godin,
146:Only I am clumsy, like drifting on the waves of the sea, without direction. ~ Laozi,
147:others are traitors and bend in the direction that power pulls. ~ Patricia Cornwell,
148:Seven out of 10 Americans don't like the direction the country's going. ~ Paul Ryan,
149:She doesn't realize it, but she steers others in a good direction. ~ Noriko Ogiwara,
150:There is a difference between giving directions and giving direction. ~ Simon Sinek,
151:There needs to be someone who can lead you in the right direction. ~ Pharoahe Monch,
152:The true state of things is not to be found in one direction alone. ~ Dogen Zenji?,
153:What use is logic, when it takes you so far in the wrong direction? ~ Helene Wecker,
154:You never know what is the next direction your life will take ~ William Shakespeare,
155:A door once opened may be stepped through in either direction. ~ Madame de Pompadour,
156:Even a kick in the ass is good when you're facing the right direction. ~ Elie Tahari,
157:I am the universe. Infinite in every direction. This is my choice ~ Deepika Padukone,
158:I feel like a nuclear missile. Point me in that direction, I'll go. ~ George Dzundza,
159:I'm a person that works off of music. I let the music dictate the direction. ~ Jay Z,
160:I think that the direction in which a writer should look is around. ~ Dorothy Parker,
161:Nothing is beneath you if it is in the direction of your life. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
162:The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life ~ Plato,
163:A one and single direction is needed which will conduct us to a one sole end. ~ Philo,
164:His one essay in love had exhausted his powers in that direction. ~ Barbara W Tuchman,
165:I am under the direction of messengers from Heaven daily and nightly. ~ William Blake,
166:If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading ~ Gautama Buddha,
167:In the direction that your fear is growing, you're on the right path. ~ Milorad Pavic,
168:Of course, speed is most useful if it is in the correct direction; ~ David J Anderson,
169:The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. ~ Plato,
170:The direction we're heading is more important than individual results. ~ Tony Robbins,
171:Time only moves in one direction. Remember that. Things always change. ~ Mohsin Hamid,
172:To get more clarity, take a step in the direction of the destination. ~ Michael Hyatt,
173:But you can't worry about what life's going to spit in your direction. ~ Tiffany Baker,
174:Gun Control: A measure to ensure that guns always point in one direction. ~ CrimethInc,
175:If you don’t change direction, you may end up where you’re heading. Where ~ Vi Keeland,
176:I was always kind of naïve, and really needed to be given some direction. ~ Paul Smith,
177:I wasn't going anywhere, so how could I be going in the wrong direction? ~ Leila Sales,
178:Management means the development of people, not the direction of things. ~ Bob Proctor,
179:Meditation is realizing and expanding your inner beauty in every direction. ~ Amit Ray,
180:My sisters and I were encouraged to choose the direction of our lives. ~ Diana DeGette,
181:public protest of the direction his party is taking. Convention ~ Richard Norton Smith,
182:Sometimes gut instinct is what determines the direction we should take. ~ Brenda Novak,
183:When you find your direction, check to make sure that it is the right one. ~ Epictetus,
184:A one-sided analysis of anything always leads you into the wrong direction. ~ Van Jones,
185:Change. But start slowly, because direction is more important than speed ~ Paulo Coelho,
186:In spiritual direction there is absolutely no domination or control. ~ Richard J Foster,
187:My sense of direction would be the death of me. Metaphorically, at least. ~ Tara Hudson,
188:Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again ~ Jack Parsons,
189:The excessive increase of anything causes a reaction in the opposite direction. ~ Plato,
190:Your words hurt, Jazz. They hurt like cotton balls thrown in my direction. ~ Barry Lyga,
191:A spinning coin, still balanced on its rim, may fall in either direction. ~ Annie Proulx,
192:By changing your direction, you can always change your destination! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
193:ducked away and took a few steps backward in the direction of her door. ~ Tracie Puckett,
194:Excuse me, sir. Can you point me in the direction of my true love? ~ Aimee Nicole Walker,
195:In the larger companies, you have this tendency to get top-down direction. ~ Vinton Cerf,
196:Loneliness Is Not The Absence Of Affection, But The Absence Of Direction. ~ Mike Murdock,
197:Rare. Rare as pirate gold. Just wave a candle in its general direction. ~ Craig Schaefer,
198:Rowing harder doesn't help if the boat is headed in the wrong direction. ~ Kenichi Ohmae,
199:Running ain't no bad thing. Leastways if you run in the right direction. ~ Mark Lawrence,
200:Sin is not a distance, it is a turning of our gaze in the wrong direction. ~ Simone Weil,
201:There is nothing wrong with change, if it is in the right direction. ~ Winston Churchill,
202:Walk away quietly in any direction and taste the freedom of the mountaineer. ~ John Muir,
203:When you can’t change the direction of the wind — adjust your sails ~ H Jackson Brown Jr,
204:Any real ecstasy is a sign you are moving in the right direction. ~ Saint Teresa of Avila,
205:Faith is taking a step in the same direction that the evidence is pointing. ~ Lee Strobel,
206:I get the feeling that you like pointing me in the wrong direction. ~ Sarah Addison Allen,
207:I've wanted to manage a long time and I've been moving in that direction. ~ Don Mattingly,
208:key in the other direction and pushed the door open. It parted a few ~ Mary Higgins Clark,
209:Sometimes, running away means you're headed in the exact right direction. ~ Alice Hoffman,
210:There is no excess of goodness. You cannot go too far in the right direction. ~ C S Lewis,
211:Whatever doesn't move in your direction moves away from it. Know yourself. ~ Iimani David,
212:Aggression only moves in one direction - it creates more aggression. ~ Margaret J Wheatley,
213:Any movement toward Christ is ascent, and any direction away from Him is down. ~ A W Tozer,
214:I don’t think success is a place or a definition, I think it’s a direction. ~ Charles Wang,
215:If I dare to hear you I will feel you like the sun And grow in your direction. ~ Mark Nepo,
216:Indeed, the direction of the future is only there in order to elude us. ~ Georges Bataille,
217:maybe it seemed like Sam ran so far because I had run the opposite direction. ~ Gail Giles,
218:Once you know what direction to take, finding the path to it becomes easy. ~ Preeti Shenoy,
219:One Direction's 3D movie has more shirtless moments than you can imagine ~ Morgan Spurlock,
220:Under Jefferson’s direction, slavery was banned in these states-to-be. In ~ Hourly History,
221:We get chased by orcs, I’m tripping you and running the other direction. ~ Danielle Monsch,
222:Whereas I think in New York every step is a detour in every direction. ~ Jason Schwartzman,
223:You can't know where life will take you, but you can commit to a direction ~ Wendell Berry,
224:no matter how tough you were, you can only look in one direction at a time. ~ Larry Correia,
225:The power of a man increases steadily by continuing in one direction. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
226:You will have to step out into the unknown, listening for direction as you go. ~ Jeff Goins,
227:Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction. ~ Hari Kumar K,
228:Destiny is always a doorstep away, if we know to move in the right direction. ~ K Hari Kumar,
229:Discover your deep inner-self and from that place spread love in every direction. ~ Amit Ray,
230:Existence doesn't have more meaning in one direction than it does in any other. ~ Charles Yu,
231:For if the car drives in the wrong direction better fuel doesn't help. ~ Janusz Korwin Mikke,
232:He stabbed a sharp-nailed digit in the direction of the Shattered Straits, ~ Christie Golden,
233:If you decide on your direction, God will give you the energy for the distance. ~ T B Joshua,
234:It became a lucrative misconception, that movement in any direction is progression ~ Canibus,
235:I was really falling in love with jazz and dedicating myself in that direction. ~ Jon Gordon,
236:Jim pulls out his iPhone and uses a digital compass to find the direction ~ Mitchell Zuckoff,
237:Refocusing on what you do want will take you in the direction of what you want. ~ Joe Vitale,
238:The ostrich is the only animal officially endowed with political direction. ~ Pierre Daninos,
239:To return to the source of things, one has to travel in the opposite direction. ~ Ren Daumal,
240:Wherever the crowd goes run in the other direction. They're always wrong. ~ Charles Bukowski,
241:You cannot look in a new direction by looking harder in the same direction. ~ Edward de Bono,
242:You talk like a drunk man walks: in every direction but where he be headed. ~ Terry Goodkind,
243:A good quotation is a very strong wind; it can change a man’s direction! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
244:Any motion in His direction is elevation for the creature; away from Him, descent ~ A W Tozer,
245:But grace has only one direction that it can take. Grace always flows down. ~ Alexander Whyte,
246:if we do not change our direction,we are likely to end up where we are headed ~ Philip Kotler,
247:I have a limited intelligence and I've used it in a particular direction. ~ Richard P Feynman,
248:I’ve always been driven, unfortunately not always in the right direction. ~ Benny Bellamacina,
249:Later, we simply let life proceed, in its own direction, towards its own fate. ~ Paulo Coelho,
250:My direction? Anywhere. Because one is always nearer by not keeping still. ~ Sebastian Faulks,
251:Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night? ~ Ally Condie,
252:Now that I’ve found the way to fly, which direction should I go into the night? ~ Ally Condie,
253:Power without moral direction is the most dangerous force in the world. ~ Christopher Paolini,
254:Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. ~ Lewis Carroll,
255:Right View cannot be described. We can only point in the correct direction. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
256:sometimes you had to be brave enough to “point your life in a new direction. ~ Liane Moriarty,
257:Trust your nose, but make sure it’s pointing in the right direction. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
258:When all the performances are excellent, critics understand it's the direction. ~ Joel Siegel,
259:When you’re circling the drain, worrying about direction is pointless. ~ Kealan Patrick Burke,
260:Every failure contains valuable data that will point you in the right direction. ~ Ramit Sethi,
261:I don't really want to direct myself, but I'm certainly torn in that direction. ~ Paul Reubens,
262:In the absence of direction, claim and expand the freedom to act as you will. ~ Seth Dickinson,
263:I think Europe is going in the right direction and we shouldn't be set back. ~ Peter Mandelson,
264:I think One Direction are the biggest band in the world, their songs are great. ~ Chris Martin,
265:It was all recorded and mixed and there's more continuity in it more direction. ~ Dave Edmunds,
266:My basic belief is you need to ride the horse in the direction that it's going. ~ Tim O Reilly,
267:Solidarity was the movement that turned the direction of history, I think. ~ Jeane Kirkpatrick,
268:The fear of The Lord is a brake that stops you when you're in the wrong direction. ~ Bob Sorge,
269:The purpose of life is to emit positive vibrations in every direction in every way. ~ Amit Ray,
270:Tink squealed like a fifteen-year-old girl at a One Direction concert. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,
271:We believe that the dementors are currently taking direction from Lord — Thingy. ~ J K Rowling,
272:You are always walking in the direction of either love or fear. Choose wisely. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
273:As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps. ~ Erica Jong,
274:Basically, when I hear the words 'family drama' I run in the opposite direction. ~ Willem Dafoe,
275:Goals are good for setting a direction, but systems are best for making progress. ~ James Clear,
276:If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking. ~ Wayne W Dyer,
277:If you cry 'forward', you must without fail make plain in what direction to go. ~ Anton Chekhov,
278:Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. ~ Gabriel Garc a M rquez,
279:Lost in the solitude of his immense power, he began to lose direction. ~ Gabriel Garcia Marquez,
280:Now that I've found the way to fly, which direction should I head into the night? ~ Ally Condie,
281:Sanctification is more about the direction than the distance we have traveled. ~ Edward T Welch,
282:She had purpose. She had direction. She wasn’t driven by passion, but by reason. ~ Ryan Holiday,
283:There's no such thing as a superhero, but together we can world in a new direction. ~ Biz Stone,
284:Your life has a natural point of aim. It flies in the direction of your habits. ~ Eric Greitens,
285:A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction. ~ Sholom Aleichem,
286:And when hearts change, direction changes, and when direction changes, lives change. ~ Anonymous,
287:Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams. ~ Robin Sharma,
288:He has afflicted you from every direction in order to pull you back to the directionless. ~ Rumi,
289:If I dare to hear you
I will feel you like the sun
And grow in your direction. ~ Mark Nepo,
290:If you walk in any direction walk in the direction toward your greatest dream. ~ Shannon L Alder,
291:I'm well beyond dyslexic: I have no sense of direction; I never know where I am. ~ Jules Feiffer,
292:Sometimes heading in the right direction required taking a few steps backward. ~ Zoraida C rdova,
293:Time has a certain current to it, and it wants to flow in a certain direction. ~ Marc Guggenheim,
294:Whoever says Americas best days are behind it are looking the wrong direction. ~ George H W Bush,
295:And a step backward, after making a wrong turn, is a step in the right direction. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
296:A very small shift in direction can lead to a very meaningful change in destination ~ James Clear,
297:ducked away and took a few steps backward in the direction of her door. Somehow, ~ Tracie Puckett,
298:Even a tiny forward step is a step in the right direction, no matter how small. ~ Khlo Kardashian,
299:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
300:If the things behind you are tripping you, you're moving in the wrong direction. ~ Steve Maraboli,
301:If we don't change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. ~ Jodi Picoult,
302:If you are facing in the right direction, all you need to do is keep on walking. ~ Gautama Buddha,
303:If you don’t change your direction, you’re likely to end up where you’re heading. ~ Susan Jeffers,
304:I move onward, the only direction Can’t be scared to fail in search of perfection. ~ Ben Horowitz,
305:It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration. ~ Thomas Paine,
306:It's fate. But fate just gives us a nudge in the right direction on the fast lane. ~ Shelly Crane,
307:let the wind change direction a little bit, and their cries turned to whispers. ~ Haruki Murakami,
308:let where you’ve been alone. Do that and the universe will lean in your direction. ~ Steven James,
309:Maybe this would be a good time to look in another direction and hum the Jeopardy ~ Susan Mallery,
310:Most of my freshman year at USC, I'd just been partying, and I had zero direction. ~ Topher Grace,
311:My best stories come from well-placed sources who point me in the right direction. ~ Wolf Blitzer,
312:Once I was, yes. But now I have turned my direction away from anything that's racist. ~ Malcolm X,
313:People are like dice. We throw ourselves in the direction of our own choosing. ~ Jean Paul Sartre,
314:She said she was approaching forty, and I couldn't help wondering from what direction. ~ Bob Hope,
315:The fear is that we'll move in the direction from being a democracy to an oligarchy. ~ Jane Mayer,
316:The mind can go either direction under stress—toward positive or toward negative: ~ Frank Herbert,
317:True friends... face in the same direction, toward common projects, interests, goals. ~ C S Lewis,
318:Walking is not important; walking to the right direction, that is important! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
319:We gotta be willing to seek direction ... we've gotta be willing to look within. ~ Iyanla Vanzant,
320:Anger can give you a false sense of direction when sadness makes you feel lost. ~ Christopher Rice,
321:be with those who help your being...your heart knows the way.run in that direction! ~ rumi#friends,
322:direction: the majority of what you want will come from the minority of what you do. ~ Gary Keller,
323:Every time you think a negative thought, it's one step in the wrong direction, for me. ~ Sean Paul,
324:G is for Green, that's constructed to roll in every direction away from the hole. ~ Richard Armour,
325:If you have absolutely no idea of which direction to move in, move in any direction. ~ Mike Dooley,
326:Nature endlessly in every direction
inward to your body and outward into space. ~ Jack Kerouac,
327:One step in the right direction is better than a hundred years of thinking about it. ~ T Harv Eker,
328:silently pray in his direction: Don’t get involved. Don’t say anything stupid. But ~ Lauren Oliver,
329:Simplicity and common sense should characterize planning and strategic direction. ~ Ingvar Kamprad,
330:Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction ~ Suzy Kassem,
331:That ain’t Chanel Number Five I smell comin from the direction of your butt, is it? ~ Stephen King,
332:The footprints of a free-minded man are always towards the forward direction. ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
333:The Holy Ghost was working through me on this film, and I was just direction traffic. ~ Mel Gibson,
334:The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope ~ Norman Cousins,
335:‎''A heart that had chosen its path couldn't be led in any other direction. ~ Shawn Kirsten Maravel,
336:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined ~ Henry David Thoreau,
337:History is direction—but Nature is extension—ergo, everyone gets eaten by a bear. ~ Oswald Spengler,
338:If you never bump into the devil, it’s because you’re going in the same direction. ~ Andrew Wommack,
339:In the winter, when you’re cold, the world extends no more than a foot in any direction. ~ Joe Hill,
340:No, my answers are for me, but maybe I can point you in the direction of your own. ~ Louis Maistros,
341:Some days I feel like my soul is being pulled in one direction and my heart in another. ~ Lang Leav,
342:Sometimes God will place a wall on your path to force you to go in another direction. ~ Suzy Kassem,
343:We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't chose their direction. ~ Michelle Moran,
344:Whatever commands the love of your heart also shapes the direction of your life. ~ Paul David Tripp,
345:You cannot change your destination overnight. You can change your direction.---Jim Rohn ~ Jim Rohn,
346:You will find it easiest to ride the avalanche in the direction it already travels. ~ David Gerrold,
347:[D]ivine Providence... keeps the universe open in every direction to the soul. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
348:Don't let money change your direction; that's the job of the giver of the money. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
349:Every baby saved, every mother helped to choose life is a step in the right direction. ~ Alveda King,
350:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you've imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
351:If you don't mind me saying, Mr. Hale. She's a keeper." He pointed in Kat's direction. ~ Ally Carter,
352:Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. ~ Zig Ziglar,
353:Like cars in amusement parks, our direction is often determined through collisions. ~ Yahia Lababidi,
354:Look for echoes. Sometimes the same shape or direction will echo through the picture. ~ Robert Henri,
355:never, never frown in her direction, because she takes everything very personally. ~ Linda Fairstein,
356:Once the herd starts moving in one direction, it's very hard to turn it, even slightly. ~ Dan Rather,
357:Retreat, hell! We're not retreating, we're just advancing in a different direction. ~ Oliver P Smith,
358:Stop trying to predict the direction of the stock market, the economy or elections. ~ Warren Buffett,
359:That girl is going to go far. I have no idea in which direction- but she'll go far ~ Sophie Kinsella,
360:The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. ~ Carl Rogers,
361:We can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can't choose their direction. ~ Michelle Moran,
362:We must not give ourselves time to think, for in that direction lies madness. ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs,
363:A scoundrel is an evil heliotrope turning always in the direction of the most powerful. ~ Umberto Eco,
364:Clock hands are ticking away my life at someone else’s direction. It’s so wrong. ~ Karen Marie Moning,
365:Did not manage to convince the French people that we were going in the right direction. ~ Alain Juppe,
366:Drink up your false courage and move forward. It’s the only direction a man can move in. ~ Robin Hobb,
367:Following your heart's desire will lead you in the direction your spirit wants to go. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
368:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined ~ Henry David Thoreau,
369:I make the necessary "corrections" if I find myself leaning too far in one direction. ~ Brenda Strong,
370:Light the candle of love. Spread the rays of happiness in every direction in every breath. ~ Amit Ray,
371:[My] career was sputtering until [I] did a 360 and got headed in the right direction. ~ Tracy McGrady,
372:People are like dice, you throw yourself in the direction of your own choosing.... ~ Jean Paul Sartre,
373:Real practice has no purpose or direction, so it can include everything that comes. ~ Shunryu Suzuki,
374:spiritual impotence of the society had left Muslims hungry for guidance and direction. ~ Umm Zakiyyah,
375:The direction of escape is toward freedom. So what is ‘escapism’ an accusation of? ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
376:The industrial direction is sometimes too much. We should think more about fantasy. ~ Roberto Cavalli,
377:There are eras in which you can only move forward by going in the opposite direction. ~ Mircea Eliade,
378:When you're a light instead of a dim switch, your brightness radiates in every direction. ~ T F Hodge,
379:You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight. ~ Jim Rohn,
380:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
381:I can't tell which direction is right or wrong anymore, but I know I want to stay. ~ Alexandra Bracken,
382:In a world of fugitives, the person taking the opposite direction will appear to run away. ~ T S Eliot,
383:It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. ~ Albert Einstein,
384:Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
385:Often in the search for your destiny you will find yourself obliged to change direction ~ Paulo Coelho,
386:Sometimes an artist is lost and needs to find a new direction for himself or his music. ~ David Ruffin,
387:still found it difficult to look him in the face. She smiled vaguely in the direction of ~ Mary Balogh,
388:Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose. ~ Elia Kazan,
389:The good life is a process, not a state of being. It is a direction not a destination. ~ Carl R Rogers,
390:The meaning of poetry has no sureness of direction; is like the sling, it is not under control. ~ Rumi,
391:The only way to combat failure is to see it as an opportunity to improve your direction. ~ Todd Duncan,
392:Where we stand is not as important as the direction in which we are moving. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
393:40But as for you,  v turn, and journey into the wilderness in the direction of the Red Sea. ~ Anonymous,
394:A Criminal is the case of surplus of human energy directed in the wrong direction. ~ Mario Vargas Llosa,
395:Freedom is the direction of history, because freedom is the permanent hope of humanity. ~ George W Bush,
396:Good writing is full of surprises and novelties, moving in a direction you don't expect. ~ Iris Murdoch,
397:If you're not shooting in the right direction, it doesn't matter how well you're shooting. ~ Jay Maisel,
398:I just Fell Down the Stairs Holding a Guitar and Accidentally Wrote a One Direction Song ~ Will Ferrell,
399:I paused, deciding which story to pluck from my quiver and shoot in his direction" -Eve ~ Michele Jaffe,
400:Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the
problem. We all have twenty-four hour days. ~ Zig Ziglar,
401:Lack of direction, not lack of time, is the problem. We all have twenty-four hour days.
   ~ Zig Ziglar,
402:The path to your dream is more about following a direction than arriving at a destination. ~ Jeff Goins,
403:...the true direction of her heart: that is to say, inwards, to the reality of dreams. ~ Salman Rushdie,
404:From whichever direction or from whoever the light comes to you, always welcome it! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
405:Intellect is a part of a good faith. Intellect is the light, the heart is the direction. ~ Tariq Ramadan,
406:It doesn’t matter which direction I move my head because everywhere I look I see penises. ~ Elle Kennedy,
407:It doesn't really matter how fast you're going if you're heading in the wrong direction. ~ Stephen Covey,
408:Love is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. a ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
409:One Direction have to do their own ironing you don't see Take That doing their own ironing! ~ Liam Payne,
410:The path of the Christian life often leads in the opposite direction of the world around us. ~ Anonymous,
411:There are some things one can only achieve by a deliberate leap in the opposite direction. ~ Franz Kafka,
412:The stallion stared in my direction and bared his teeth. Now horses were giving me crap. ~ Ilona Andrews,
413:Watson: "You may be right."

Holmes: "The probability lies in that direction. ~ Arthur Conan Doyle,
414:While the future is unknowable, the winds always blow in the direction of human progress. ~ Barack Obama,
415:Why do we only realise who we are at the end of a long journey in the wrong direction? ~ Iain Rob Wright,
416:You have to listen to what resonates within your own gut. You find your direction there. ~ Kathy Mattea,
417:Your decisions will determine direction. Your direction will determine destination. Let ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
418:Always treat children in the direction you wish them to grow, not as they now are. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher,
419:A man loses his sense of direction after four drinks; a woman loses hers after four kisses. ~ H L Mencken,
420:But time moves in only one direction. Not everything that breaks can be repaired. ~ Karen Thompson Walker,
421:Everybody learns differently and everybody gets to a certain point from a different direction. ~ Stan Lee,
422:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams,
Live the life you have imagined. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
423:His brain might know that she was all wrong, but his dick kept pointing in her direction. ~ Susan Mallery,
424:If I have a drink in my hand, sometimes it accidentally falls in the direction of the person. ~ Jorja Fox,
425:In order to seek one's own direction, one must simplify the mechanics of ordinary, everyday life. ~ Plato,
426:Maybe I'm lucky to be going so slowly, because I may be going in the wrong direction ~ Ashleigh Brilliant,
427:Nobody can motivate himself in a positive direction by continually using negative words. ~ John C Maxwell,
428:Once you’re facing the direction of the deep within, awareness enters without a thought. ~ John de Ruiter,
429:Plod diligently. Plodding generally goes in the same direction, while pottering doesn't. ~ Douglas Wilson,
430:Take a small step in the direction of a dream and watch the synchronous doors flying open ~ Julia Cameron,
431:The nation should move towards one target, one direction, one intention and one decision. ~ Narendra Modi,
432:True meditation has no direction or goal. It is pure wordless surrender, pure silent prayer. ~ Adyashanti,
433:We're principled in the direction we're heading, but we're not going to be stubborn. ~ Julie Larson Green,
434:We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction. ~ Byron Katie,
435:With us [...] the enemy isn't over the hill or in any specific direction. It's all around. ~ Markus Zusak,
436:“You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” ~ ~ Jim Rohn,
437:Crazy women seek out things that are bad for them. The smart ones run in the other direction. ~ Max Monroe,
438:Governments must now take a leading role in moving their nations in the right direction. ~ Henry W Kendall,
439:It is the set of the sails, not the direction of the wind that determines which way we will go. ~ Jim Rohn,
440:It's better to go slowly in the right direction than go speeding off in the wrong direction. ~ Simon Sinek,
441:Love is not about staring at each other, but staring off in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
442:Prayer is an acknowledgement of your dependence on God and His direction for your life. ~ Elizabeth George,
443:Providence, assuredly, is a mysterious mover, and who is Jane to ignore it's direction? ~ Stephanie Barron,
444:The direction worth going in isn't up, down, forward, or backward. It's towards. And beyond. ~ Umair Haque,
445:Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me. ~ Franz Kafka,
446:I didn't intend to go in that direction but strange things happen when the lights go out. ~ Donna Lynn Hope,
447:I just want your voice aimed at me again. I want to absorb the direction of your eyes… ~ Jennifer Elisabeth,
448:Kids are amazing, as long as they have the push in the right direction at home.” Lourdes ~ Michael Connelly,
449:Man alone resists the direction of gravitation: he constantly wants to fall--upwards. ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
450:Our thoughts create our reality - where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go. ~ Peter McWilliams,
451:Sadness does not last forever when we walk in the direction of that which we always desired. ~ Paulo Coelho,
452:She said that sometimes you had to be brave enough to “point your life in a new direction. ~ Liane Moriarty,
453:Some of the people who are showing off their speed are headed in the wrong direction. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
454:Tell me the direction of your thoughts and I will tell you the direction of your life! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
455:to be right in the wrong direction may be wrong; what then is the wrong direction? ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
456:Traditionally, Young Republicans have been a leading indicator of the direction of the party. ~ Roger Stone,
457:"We've been looking outside us for our own peace. We've been looking in the wrong direction." ~ Byron Katie,
458:When you value your family over anything else you're always going in the right direction. ~ Amanda Seyfried,
459:why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands? ~ Anonymous,
460:without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction. ~ Eric Greitens,
461:Be the radiator of peace. Go to the center of your inner being. Radiate peace in every direction. ~ Amit Ray,
462:Christ didn't join in. He saw which direction the rocks were being thrown, and became a shield. ~ Criss Jami,
463:Faith accepts His divine command and steps out in a direction that only God can complete. ~ Henry T Blackaby,
464:For all the compasses in the world, there's only one direction, and time is its only measure. ~ Tom Stoppard,
465:Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience. ~,
466:He is very careful and loving, and hardly lets me stir without special direction. ~ Charlotte Perkins Gilman,
467:If anyone says 'Let's have a girls' night out', I will run in the opposite direction. ~ Kristin Scott Thomas,
468:Life is like a steering wheel, it only takes one small move to change your entire direction. ~ Kellie Elmore,
469:Like a spring pulled too tight, Quincy cocked her small chin up in the direction fo the voice. ~ Beth Brower,
470:Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear, or fool from any direction. ~ Kelly Eileen Hake,
471:No one is really going to help you or give you direction. In fact, the odds are against you. ~ Robert Greene,
472:Our thoughts create our reality -- where we put our focus is the direction we tend to go. ~ Peter McWilliams,
473:Sometimes the smallest step in the right direction ends up being the biggest step of your life. ~ Emma Stone,
474:The only smart choice is to move, to not hold out for a better time and choose a direction now. ~ Jeff Goins,
475:We want to be in motion in the direction of our goals as much and as frequently as possible. ~ Stephen Guise,
476:Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction. ~ Chris Evert,
477:You are a great, mighty and powerful spiritual being with dignity, direction and purpose. ~ Dannion Brinkley,
478:direction générale de la sécurité intérieure, or DGSI, was France’s internal security service. ~ Daniel Silva,
479:Directions are instructions given to explain how. Direction is a vision offered to explain why. ~ Simon Sinek,
480:Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know I am moving from fear to love. ~ Henri Nouwen,
481:Failure is life at it's most poignant and it's only there to push you in the right direction. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
482:If Republicans are going in the wrong direction, I am still willing to stand up against them. ~ Steve Scalise,
483:I have trouble with direction, because I have trouble with authority. I was not a good Marine. ~ Gene Hackman,
484:I've done enough of this that I can tell early on if it's going in the wrong direction or not. ~ Dennis Muren,
485:Our life must have an aim, but we must also ensure that the direction we take is a good one. ~ Yehudi Menuhin,
486:People going in the wrong direction will get like that. Round pegs just don't fit in square holes. ~ J R Ward,
487:Russia is certainly no longer a free country. We are moving in the direction of Zimbabwe. ~ Andrey Illarionov,
488:The author says we enlist reasons to convince others to join the direction of our instincts. ~ Jonathan Haidt,
489:"The question is: what at this moment is the natural direction of the growth of this individual?" ~ Carl Jung,
490:This I would fight for: the freedom of the mind to take any direction it wishes, undirected. ~ John Steinbeck,
491:You see, there's a theory current you're insane, or you lean strongly in that direction. ~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky,
492:A man pushed from behind by many hands will go in but one direction, no matter what he wills. ~ Steven Erikson,
493:But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction, ~ Winston Graham,
494:Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.
   ~ Franz Kafka,
495:Fashion goes in only one direction -forward- and I am a firm believer in thinking that way too. ~ Anna Wintour,
496:For each new morning let there be flow of love. Let there be light of happiness in every direction. ~ Amit Ray,
497:History has to move in a certain direction, even if it has to be pushed that way by neurotics. ~ George Orwell,
498:I am not lost, but I am without direction, and even though they sound the same, they are not. ~ Jillian Cantor,
499:I follow the direction of the wind, and I cannot be blamed if a new wind begins to blow ~ Silvia Moreno Garcia,
500:If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction. ~ Eric Metaxas,
501:If your confusion leads you in the right direction, the results can be uncommonly rewarding. ~ Haruki Murakami,
502:I want to build an audience that's willing to follow us in whichever direction we might choose. ~ Bradford Cox,
503:The bottom line is that people are seeking answers and direction, not messages or sales pitches. ~ Brian Solis,
504:The power of our beliefs can work in either direction to become life affirming or life denying. ~ Gregg Braden,
505:Was she naked?" Lasher said. "To the waist," Cotsakis said. "From which direction?" Lasher said. ~ Don DeLillo,
506:Worshiping the creation is never a pathway to life; it leads you in the opposite direction. ~ Paul David Tripp,
507:Yeah, well, dont be smug in my direction. Especially when youre fucking with whats mine,” I growl. ~ T J Klune,
508:You have to always be ready, always be alive, and always be willing to move in a new direction. ~ Kevin Spacey,
509:A value is a direction we desire to keep moving in, an ongoing process that never reaches an end. ~ Russ Harris,
510:Give a nice answer to those who want you to look in one direction: Look in all directions! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
511:Keep in mind that when you’ve reached the valley floor, the only direction you can go is upward. ~ Wayne W Dyer,
512:Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend. ~ Walter Savage Landor,
513:People at any stage will profit by taking the wheel and getting pointed in the right direction. ~ Michael Hyatt,
514:Scouting is a game for boys under the leadership of boys under the direction of a man. ~ Baden Powell de Aquino,
515:The children either become like their parents or else they flee in the opposite direction. ~ Elizabeth Chadwick,
516:"The question is: what at this moment is the natural direction of the growth of this individual?" - ~ Carl Jung,
517:There is no such thing as failure. Failure is just life trying to move us in another direction. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
518:There was a strong sense of being alone, in wintry deadness. Nothing made sense in any direction. ~ Donna Tartt,
519:Who the hell are you? (Zeke)
Wrong direction, actually. But my name is Gabriel. (Gabriel) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
520:you may be wrong to be right in the wrong direction, but, what is the wrong direction? ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
521:But fear and fascination are yokefellows, oxen out of step but pulling in the same direction... ~ Winston Graham,
522:Could distance in one direction differ from distance in another? It's always faster coming home. ~ Michael Flynn,
523:Find your horse. Discover the direction the horse is going. Ride the horse in that direction. ~ Peter McWilliams,
524:Herd pressure is to be judged by two things: first, its intensity, and second, its direction. ~ Bertrand Russell,
525:I can't change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ~ Jimmy Dean,
526:I see socialism in the direction, of management, of enterprise, by all who work in the enterprise. ~ Erich Fromm,
527:Just because your direction has never been clear to you does not mean that you must give up. ~ Timothy Treadwell,
528:Love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Anonymous,
529:Mastery is the rudder, Mystery is the sail and Magic the wind to move you in your chosen direction. ~ Jack White,
530:So long as you are going in the right direction then the speed of your travel is unimportant. ~ Stephen Richards,
531:Strings of language extend in every direction to bind the world into a rushing, ribald whole. ~ Donald Barthelme,
532:The boy with no direction taught me something unforgettable: happiness comes again if you let it. ~ Adam Silvera,
533:There’s no point in looking before crossing the road if you don’t look in the right direction. ~ Fran ois Lelord,
534:...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, Land lies there. ~ Joshua Slocum,
535:Emotions are simply biological signals designed to nudge you in the direction of beneficial change. ~ Mark Manson,
536:Eric Miller has always tried to steer his son in the direction of what he can do, not what he can’t. ~ Jeff Goins,
537:Haw realized he had been held captive by his own fear. Moving in a new direction had freed him. ~ Spencer Johnson,
538:If we kept kissing, we were going to end up fucking. There was no other direction this could go. ~ Megan Erickson,
539:If you are tired of partisanship over patriotism, you need to vote for a change in direction. ~ Jennifer Granholm,
540:If you have a clear mind . . . you won't have to search for direction. Direction will come to you. ~ Phil Jackson,
541:In a world full of shifting borders, everything is happening all at once in every possible direction. ~ Pico Iyer,
542:My eyes open wide. It worked. One by one, the Watchers nod in my direction with respect in their eyes. ~ Susan Ee,
543:Our hearts determine our paths, the distances we’ll go, the direction, and the length of our stay, ~ Shari J Ryan,
544:the mind was like a weapon. I had to point my mind in the right direction or I could harm myself. ~ Blaise Corvin,
545:The shadows around me roused themselves as if from a deep sleep and left silently in every direction. ~ Anonymous,
546:Time is like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. You can never go back. ~ Suzanne Woods Fisher,
547:To love is not to look at one another: it is to look, together, in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery,
548:To love is not to look at one another, it is to look, together, in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
549:When people can see which direction the leaders are going in it becomes easier to motivate them. ~ Lakshmi Mittal,
550:. . . while we cooed and fretted and bent our faces into sympathetic shapes in his direction. ~ Kristen Roupenian,
551:You are the only person I've ever met who goes the other direction from the things she wants ~ Jodi Lynn Anderson,
552:All he knew was he was going to put one foot down in front of the other in that direction. There ~ Jonathan Fields,
553:And crying for a direction in the void
   ~ Sri Aurobindo, Savitri, The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life,
554:...as the day wore on I watched the birds all flying in one direction, and said, "Land lies there. ~ Joshua Slocum,
555:Human relationships were so complicated and always veering in the direction of the irrational. ~ Michael D O Brien,
556:I don't want to lie, play games, hurt somebody, or get hurt. You can only go forward in one direction. ~ Sean Penn,
557:If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. —CHINESE PROVERB ~ Jodi Picoult,
558:Insanity is something like drowning,’ said Sparrow. ‘You go under; you flounder without direction; ~ Frank Herbert,
559:Not I, not I, but the wind that blows through me! A fine wind is blowing the new direction of Time. ~ D H Lawrence,
560:Strange isn't it? How it's the direction we are viewed from that makes us attractive or abhorrent. ~ Galen Beckett,
561:Success. Is not the position where you are standing, but which direction you are going. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr,
562:That young man will go far, she said. I don’t know in what direction, but he will go far. ~ Alexander McCall Smith,
563:The intelligent use of science and technology are the tools with which to achieve a new direction. ~ Jacque Fresco,
564:There’s a reason time only marches in one direction. You can choose any second to start over again. ~ Aly Martinez,
565:Admitting it to Sasha would be on a par to admitting I listen to One Direction in secret or something. ~ L H Cosway,
566:A society will manufacture an image of progress and locate it in the direction it wishes to take us. ~ Steve Aylett,
567:If we don’t change the direction we are headed, we will end up where we are going. – Chinese proverb ~ Jodi Picoult,
568:If you board the wrong train, it is no use running along the corridor in the other direction. ~ Dietrich Bonhoeffer,
569:If you wake up without any goals or direction, your days are practically guaranteed to get you nowhere. ~ Hal Elrod,
570:I know she loves One Direction and that her favorite member is Louis, because he’s the mature one. ~ Kristin Harmel,
571:I like to step into areas where I am afraid. Fear is a sign that I am going in the right direction. ~ April Greiman,
572:I'm always asking God for direction, but I'll miss it if I constantly ignore His instruction. (11) ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
573:It’s the direction the feet are pointing—not the hands—that indicates a person’s true interest. ~ Michelle Richmond,
574:I've probably jerked myself off a million times. It's the exact same thing. Just a different direction. ~ Anonymous,
575:My music definitely determines the direction we're gonna move in. It's like music, fashion, hair, makeup. ~ Rihanna,
576:opposite direction of gravity, forcing the universe to expand faster than it otherwise would. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
577:Our scars don't point us in the direction were headed, Cass, they simply remind us of where we've been ~ J Sterling,
578:The liberal arts do not conduct the soul all the way to virtue, but merely set it going in that direction. ~ Seneca,
579:To love does not mean to look at each other, but to work together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
580:What is needed is not a revolution in the opposite direction, but the opposite of a revolution. ~ Joseph de Maistre,
581:You can’t find the truth by looking at only one direction! Let your mind look every direction! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
582:A deeper truth exists, waiting to be found... inviting me to go every direction at once, and none. ~ Daniel H Wilson,
583:By being critical, you also develop your own style of what you like, what direction you want to move. ~ Robert Barry,
584:Change doesn’t happen overnight. It starts with the desire, then one small step in the right direction. ~ Paula Deen,
585:Disorder increases with time because we measure time in the direction in which disorder increases. ~ Stephen Hawking,
586:GREAT LEADER'S DIRECTION FLASHES WILL SHOWER EVERY GOAL POME ON OBEISANCE LOINISATION.ANY CHAGRIN POTHER?? ~ Various,
587:Human behavior is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable. ~ Patrick White,
588:I am always more interested in performance and character depiction, and my direction says as much. ~ Lasse Hallstrom,
589:If you don't change the direction you are going, then you're likely to end up where you're heading. ~ John C Maxwell,
590:If you don’t change the direction you are going, then you’re likely to end up where you’re heading… ~ John C Maxwell,
591:I met some people in college and I kept cracking away until someone pointed me in the right direction. ~ Mike Colter,
592:I stand before you a weekend version of your reflection begging for direction, for my soul needs resurrection. ~ DMX,
593:It is almost impossible to watch a clockwise direction - it gets extremely boring and causes despair. ~ Albert Camus,
594:I was a zombie then—like all Muslims—I was hypnotized, pointed in a certain direction and told to march. ~ Malcolm X,
595:I will always be confident in the direction of my dreams because that's the life I wish to live. ~ Alfusainey jallow,
596:The only person to influence the direction and purpose of your life is the one who gave it. God! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
597:True genius is a mind of large general powers accidentally determined in some particular direction. ~ Samuel Johnson,
598:We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction. ~ Stefan Molyneux,
599:A black Chevy coupe with acne corrosion passed in the opposite direction, and two aging black pickups. ~ Robert Crais,
600:Comprehension, inventiveness, direction, and criticism: intelligence is contained in these four words. ~ Alfred Binet,
601:Gay TV has been immensely important in transforming American culture in a more gay-positive direction. ~ Tony Kushner,
602:I replied, resisting the urge to jump up and down and shake my ass victoriously in his general direction. ~ Anonymous,
603:Is it not the case that many a life journey starts out in the opposite direction to its destiny? ~ Sena Jeter Naslund,
604:Our scars don’t point us in the direction we’re headed, Cass, they simply remind us of where we’ve been. ~ J Sterling,
605:Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. ~ C S Lewis,
606:There has been a lot of progress during my lifetime, but I'm afraid it's heading in the wrong direction. ~ Ogden Nash,
607:The time has come to choose a new direction of global development, to opt for a new civilization. ~ Mikhail Gorbachev,
608:Were one to ask me in which direction I think man strongest, I should say, his capacity to hate. ~ Henry Ward Beecher,
609:What struck me was how assured he seemed of his own direction in life. He was oddly free from doubt, ~ Michelle Obama,
610:When taken in the right direction, even a step that is only half a centimeter long is progress. ~ Mokokoma Mokhonoana,
611:When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good orderly direction. ~ Julia Cameron,
612:A gray leather couch was against the wall. Above it was a giant framed photo of One Direction. ~ Jennifer L Armentrout,
613:Certain subjects yield a general power that may be applied in any direction and should be studied by all. ~ John Locke,
614:Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. ~ Kristin Hannah,
615:Every time I take a step in the direction of generosity, I know that I am moving from fear to love. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,
616:I change my direction, I can't even help it. It's sort of like the fortune and misfortune of being a rapper. ~ Doseone,
617:I firmly believe that the court should take another direction on many of these moral issues that face us. ~ Tom Coburn,
618:I get a different kind of lyric from someone else that might make me go in a different musical direction. ~ Barry Mann,
619:The best way to show people true things is from a direction that they had not imagined the truth coming. ~ Neil Gaiman,
620:The jabs Sheila launched in my direction never failed to score a direct hit to my soft belly. I ~ Joanna Campbell Slan,
621:Trends are about as fickle as the direction of the wind; as are the legacies of those who flow with them. ~ Criss Jami,
622:Was she naked?" Lasher said.
"To the waist," Cotsakis said.
"From which direction?" Lasher said. ~ Don DeLillo,
623:What did I know of loving anything, beyond a longing, beyond being biased in one woman's direction. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
624:What got her there was not some lofty dream. It was gradual and persistent action in the right direction. ~ Jeff Goins,
625:When we open ourselves to exploring our creativity, we open ourselves to God: good, orderly direction. ~ Julia Cameron,
626:You cannot change your destination overnight, but you can change your direction overnight.” —Jim Rohn ~ John C Maxwell,
627:Don’t wait another day to start the small disciplines that will lead you in the direction of your goals! ~ Darren Hardy,
628:If you're a leader, it's important to set aside time to quiet yourself and listen for God's direction. ~ John C Maxwell,
629:I hope that there are no persons that would want to think ill of me in any direction or any behavior. ~ Diahann Carroll,
630:It is difficult to spread the contagion of excitement without having a sense of purpose and direction. ~ Daniel Goleman,
631:No one is yet using figuratively to mean literally; the confusion, such as it is, is all in one direction. ~ Ammon Shea,
632:The pure intellectual direction travels away from life. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Synthesis Of Yoga, The Divine Personality,
633:Your soul - that inner quiet space - is yours to consult. It will always guide you in the right direction. ~ Wayne Dyer,
634:Aimer, ce n'est pas se regarder l'un l'autre, c'est regarder ensemble dans la même direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
635:As a painter I make up projects for myself to express myself. And there's no client, there's no direction. ~ Paula Scher,
636:Growing children are like foals. If they’re not given room to run, they’ll lash out in every direction. ~ Oliver P tzsch,
637:How we [Americans] move [on climate] will determine the international direction. To lead, we must act. ~ Eileen Claussen,
638:Life works upon a compensating balance, and the happiness we gain in one direction we lose in another. ~ Jerome K Jerome,
639:Oh, Master Obi-Wan teach me to see the errors of my way and point me in the direction of a true Jedi. ~ Jessica Gadziala,
640:The invisible hand in politics operates in the opposite direction to the invisible hand in the market. ~ Milton Friedman,
641:They call me Domino for obvious reasons. One nudge in the right direction and I'm flat on my stomach. ~ Charlie Cochrane,
642:We find it difficult to choose our direction because it does not yet exist distinctly in our idea. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
643:When we feel farthest from our purpose, we are actually already on the path, headed in the right direction. ~ Jeff Goins,
644:You came in by yourselves, without His direction, and will go out by yourselves, without His mercy."
To ~ John Bunyan,
645:Any true ecstast is a sign you are going in the right direction...don't let any prude tell you otherwise ~ Teresa of vila,
646:as Hans Reichenbach suggests in one of the most lucid books on the nature of time, The Direction of Time, ~ Carlo Rovelli,
647:At last, the men retreated to their post, and Lila gave her own mocking bow in Kell’s direction. “Mas vares, ~ V E Schwab,
648:Clinton, after all, was not the candidate of those who wanted to see a shift in policy or direction. ~ Jared Yates Sexton,
649:Conversion is not implanting eyes, for they exist already; but giving them a right direction, which they have not ~ Plato,
650:Direction is only necessary when your destination is certain but the path to get there isn't clear to you ~ Fela Durotoye,
651:I admire Chancellor Merkel for her leadership qualities, but she is leading Europe in the wrong direction. ~ George Soros,
652:it felt as if he and I walked the same road, but each of us was going in a different direction. “You’ve ~ Marieke Nijkamp,
653:Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward. ~ Charles Yu,
654:The true genius is a mind of large general powers, accidentally determined to some particular direction. ~ Samuel Johnson,
655:Why do you read books?” he asked. “Why do you drink beer?” I replied without glancing in his direction, ~ Haruki Murakami,
656:Enter RUMOUR, painted full of tongues."

[Stage direction, Henry IV, Part 2, Induction] ~ William Shakespeare,
657:Even if we cannot be completely non-voilent, by being vegetarian we are going in the direction of non-voilence ~ Nhat Hanh,
658:Guidance is not attained except with knowledge and correct direction is not attained except with patience. ~ Ibn Taymiyyah,
659:I found myself in my first art school under the direction of Robert Henri... My life began at this point. ~ George Bellows,
660:In life there are times you must only walk without any particular direction to find your random fate! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
661:in the caves of my heart, where pain taps out its rhythms and sorrow sets its loss, i am without direction. ~ Nick Bantock,
662:I took courses at USC in film editing and art direction and photography when I was still in high school. ~ Ray Harryhausen,
663:I was six and bushes were cool.”
“Well, if I ever see a cool bush, I’ll point it in your direction. ~ Rebecca Ethington,
664:Jack flinched as Debra grabbed the dismembered head by the hair and threw it in his direction. ‘Heads up.’ She ~ Matt Shaw,
665:Loving is not just looking at each other, it's looking in the same direction. -Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, ~ Albert Einstein,
666:Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things. ~ Cassandra Clare,
667:My thoughts lead me in the direction of healing, prosperity, connection, and grace-filled experiences. ~ Cheryl Richardson,
668:Nobody is born a winner, but anyone can develop the way of thought that guides you to the right direction. ~ Gunnar Nelson,
669:Photography is only a new road from a different direction, but moving toward the common goal, which is life. ~ Paul Strand,
670:Russell Wilson.” Eric sighed dreamily then pointed a fork in my direction. “He’s better than Tom Brady. ~ Rachel Van Dyken,
671:That history just unfolds, independently of a specified direction, of a goal, no one is willing to admit. ~ Emile M Cioran,
672:the great masses always and at once respond to the force of gravity in the direction of the powers that be. ~ Stefan Zweig,
673:the secret of fulfillment is “to choose trouble for oneself in the direction of what one would like to become. ~ Anonymous,
674:Travelling in one direction. Yearning to be going the other way. She has lived here. She will survive there. ~ sa Larsson,
675:When I composed the first sonic meditation, I realized that I was composing the direction of attention. ~ Pauline Oliveros,
676:But at least the way was clear now. When you step off a cliff, your life takes a very definite direction. ~ Terry Pratchett,
677:He looked at me. “You got his little hellion here?” he asked, pointing in Pepper’s direction. “Absolutely. ~ Jessica Prince,
678:He was going somewhere, he knew that. And if it was the wrong direction, sooner or later he'd find it out. ~ Raymond Carver,
679:His coming was in the nature of a welcome disturbance; it seemed to furnish a new direction for her emotions. ~ Kate Chopin,
680:I could go back in the direction I had come from, or I could go forward in the direction I intended to go. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
681:If there's one thing I can't stand, it's somebody doing something because I pushed them in that direction. ~ Leslie Fiedler,
682:I have no sense of direction at all. Thank the Lord for my TomTom, otherwise I'd spend my whole life lost. ~ Tamsin Egerton,
683:In real life, strategy is actually very straightforward. You pick a general direction and implement like hell. ~ Jack Welch,
684:know who you want to be and take the next step that points you in the direction of that character quality. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
685:Let us understand Darwinism so we can walk in the opposite direction when it comes to setting up society. ~ Richard Dawkins,
686:Life needed smoothness, but it also needed direction. One could not always be returning to the point of origin. ~ Liu Cixin,
687:Look at the potential for America. Look at the direction we've been going. Look at the direction we need to go. ~ Paul Ryan,
688:The one who obeys God’s instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
689:We will not stop until the sea bounds us in every direction. I am Genghis who say this and my word is iron. ~ Conn Iggulden,
690:When one is in a difficulty or at a loss, one never knows in what direction a way out may chance to open. ~ Charles Dickens,
691:When you travel with a wise man, in addition to your physical direction, you travel to every direction ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
692:Writers, especially when they act in a body and with one direction, have great influence on the public mind. ~ Edmund Burke,
693:A perfect martini should be made by filling a glass with gin then waving it in the general direction of Italy. ~ Noel Coward,
694:Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction--only enough to make you useless. ~ Daniel Nayeri,
695:I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ‘’Jimmy ~ Benjamin Smith,
696:I could have gone either north or south but decided to strike off north because it was my favorite direction. ~ Alan Bradley,
697:India has the purity, the innocence. India knows what it wants. There is a direction. It has so much to offer. ~ Anil Kapoor,
698:My criticisms are extremely mild in comparison to the tone of some of the questions fired in my direction. ~ Scott McClellan,
699:People often look at the same direction! But success comes from people looking in different directions! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
700:The concept of coaching is based on constant development and change — regardless of direction and content. ~ Svend Brinkmann,
701:the country sat at a defining crossroads, ready to veer in one direction, but just as able to choose another, it ~ Jay Winik,
702:The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind. ~ John Millington Synge,
703:The great thing in this world, is not so much where we are, but in which direction we are moving. ~ Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr,
704:The most stirring battle-poem in English is about a brigade of cavalry which charged in the wrong direction. ~ George Orwell,
705:The one who obey's God's instruction for today will develop a keen awareness of His direction for tomorrow. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
706:the ray of light has to know where it will ultimately end up before it can choose the direction to begin moving ~ Ted Chiang,
707:Ultimately, I remain optimistic about not just America's future, but the direction that the world is growing. ~ Barack Obama,
708:We look to our leaders once we elect them to either lead us in the right direction or at least not crush us. ~ Dave Matthews,
709:When you extend your goodwill in every direction, regardless of circumstances, you begin to see that we are all one. ~ Laozi,
710:You have brains in your head.
You have feet in your shoes.
You can steer yourself any direction you choose. ~ Dr Seuss,
711:Your world will change whether or not you choose to change, but you have the power to choose it's direction. ~ Napoleon Hill,
712:You’ve already done something pretty empowering. Well, she did,” August said, dipping his head in my direction. ~ Kiera Cass,
713:But there was never any knowing or any certitude; the time to come always had more than one possible direction. ~ Paul Bowles,
714:Even places you know well can take on a touch of the unknown when you arrive there from a different direction. ~ Kate Milford,
715:He did what good lawyers always do. He shifted his argument in the direction his audience was already going. ~ Jeffrey Toobin,
716:I made the right decisions, I set everything on the right course, the reforms are going in the right direction. ~ Lech Walesa,
717:I see the whole thing popping and parenthesizing in every direction, the story of that house and that kitchen. ~ Jack Kerouac,
718:Promise" is a word like any other. Words can go in any direction. It's only the body that is incapable of lying. ~ Meg Howrey,
719:That same sense of direction that animals possess perfectly also awakens in man under the right conditions. ~ Varlam Shalamov,
720:The splendors that belong unto the fame of earth are but a wind, that in the same direction lasts not long. ~ Dante Alighieri,
721:We carry within ourselves the direction our lives will take. Within ourselves burn the timeless, fateful stars. ~ Antal Szerb,
722:Well, I do listen to God for direction, but I really don't have time to listen to other artists all that much. ~ Dolly Parton,
723:When you let people put you up on a pedestal, you step one step in any direction, and you're going to go down. ~ James Dobson,
724:Without good direction, people lose their way; the more wise counsel you follow, the better your chances. ~ Eugene H Peterson,
725:You keep working hard and the wind will carry you where it needs to carry you, in the direction you need to be. ~ Drew Gooden,
726:Darwin's idea of natural selection makes people uncomfortable because it reverses the direction of tradition. ~ Daniel Dennett,
727:Don’t be too quick to accept every direction from friends. Watch closely what your hear before your apply. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
728:I believe in the religion of Love, whatever direction its caravans may take, for Love is my religion and my faith. ~ Ibn Arabi,
729:I guess the ultimate luxury professionally is to be able to change your direction, to work in another medium. ~ Paul McCartney,
730:I move onward, the only direction Can’t be scared to fail in search of perfection.” —JAY Z, “ON TO THE NEXT ONE ~ Ben Horowitz,
731:In every single thing you do, you are choosing a direction. Your life is a product of choices. Dr. Kathleen Hall ~ Joyce Meyer,
732:Love consists of not looking each other in the eye, but of looking outwardly in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
733:Now it's time for India to steer ourselves, ride the waves and decide on our direction, destination and speed. ~ Narendra Modi,
734:So they've got us surrounded, good! Now we can fire in any direction, those b*****ds won't get away this time! ~ Chesty Puller,
735:The person who has some awareness of the past knows how to fashion a rudder and which direction land is. ~ Kareem Abdul Jabbar,
736:When obstacles arise, you change your direction to reach your goal; you do not change your decision to get there. ~ Zig Ziglar,
737:While Obama merely bowed clumsily in the direction of Idiot America, John McCain set up housekeeping there. ~ Charles P Pierce,
738:You're on a positive road. You have some type of direction where you're going, so you have to just keep on going. ~ Bob Marley,
739:A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. LaoTzu. Just make sure that you step in the right direction. ~ Lao Tzu,
740:Maybe this would be a good time to look in another direction and hum the Jeopardy! theme until the need passes. ~ Susan Mallery,
741:The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
742:The longer you chase the wrong person, the further you travel in the wrong direction. You're better than that. ~ Steve Maraboli,
743:The thing is, comedy's gone in a weird direction. People are really into ironic comedy and fakeness and cleverness. ~ Louis C K,
744:Trust what you love, continue to move forward in that direction, and you will end up where you truly hope to be. ~ Jos N Harris,
745:We can help the work of justice by preparing for a marathon, not a sprint. A long obedience in the same direction ~ Gary Haugen,
746:an intellect that positively excels even in one single direction is among the rarest of natural phenomena. ~ Arthur Schopenhauer,
747:don’t always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in. ~ Joelle Charbonneau,
748:It takes little talent to see what lies under one's nose, a good deal to know in what direction to point that organ. ~ W H Auden,
749:Love does not consist in gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exupery,
750:Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
751:Stay true to what you believe in and don't let people try to change that direction. Don't take no for an answer. ~ Lauren Conrad,
752:Success is like a mountain that keeps growing ahead of you as you hike it... Err in the direction of kindness. ~ George Saunders,
753:The direction you choose to face determines whether you're standing at the end or the beginning of a road. ~ Richelle E Goodrich,
754:There are two types of dreams: one to realise, the other is to be there only to create hope, a direction, a reason. ~ Sara Alexi,
755:There is no Yoda-there's no one who points you in the right direction. You've got to figure that out by yourself. ~ Heath Ledger,
756:Truth is something we discover by carrying it out. It is not a list of statements, but a direction of life. ~ David Steindl Rast,
757:Uranus transiting through the tenth house usually indicates a complete change in the overall direction of our lives. ~ Anonymous,
758:We don’t go to Scripture for permission to do what we think is best, but for direction to do what He says is best. ~ David Platt,
759:Whenever you feel lost or lacking direction, you can pull it out to remind yourself to discover what matters most. ~ Gary Keller,
760:When risk is a challenge, fear becomes a compass—literally pointing people in the direction they need to go next ~ Steven Kotler,
761:Do I have a long-term plan? Kind of. I have a general direction, I think. But it's funny what comes down the pike. ~ Jeff Bridges,
762:I can’t change the direction of the wind, but I can adjust my sails to always reach my destination. ‘’Jimmy Dean ~ Benjamin Smith,
763:In the end, writing is not a full step toward self-healing, just a tiny, very tentative move in that direction. ~ Haruki Murakami,
764:[it may be necessary] to oversteer in the opposite direction for a while, in order to find your true trajectory. ~ Philippa Perry,
765:I was always fascinated by politics, and I did not like the direction the country was going under Bill Clinton. ~ Joe Scarborough,
766:Lord, lead me in the right direction. Show me where to go from here and please stay by my side the whole way. ~ Adrienne Thompson,
767:Obviously with every new album we make, we always have to believe in it and feel we've gone in the right direction. ~ Nick Rhodes,
768:Sometimes we can change the direction of our lives, but sometimes we’re destined to follow the path we were given. ~ Linda Wisdom,
769:The Greater Soul moves in only one direction, and that is to bring into union that which has been made separate. ~ Bert Hellinger,
770:The increase of disorder or entropy is what distinguishes the past from the future, giving a direction to time. ~ Stephen Hawking,
771:Truly there is a tide in the affairs of men; but there is no gulf-stream setting forever in one direction. ~ James Russell Lowell,
772:all the gods are the same unknowable mystery, just as each face of a jewel strikes light in a different direction ~ Kate Constable,
773:And you," she spat in Nikolai's direction. "Go somewhere you're wanted."

"That's hardly limiting," he said. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
774:I don't think you should ever start a business and move in a direction where you can't see it becoming a business. ~ Kevin Systrom,
775:If we keep God’s Word before our eyes, we won’t start looking in the wrong direction and doing the wrong things ~ Warren W Wiersbe,
776:I pray that the Holy Spirit puts His Words in my mouth, His movement in my heart and His direction in my path. ~ Alisa Hope Wagner,
777:Myself, I think of this top-level goal as a compass that gives direction and meaning to all the goals below it. ~ Angela Duckworth,
778:Power always has a direction. It is always downward, towards the weak but power is often confused with what is right ~ Jean Vanier,
779:Principles which could be subverted by feeling in one direction were liable to the same catastrophe in another. The ~ Thomas Hardy,
780:Slowly, but surely, we are moving in the right direction. We're on the right track. The economy is getting stronger ~ Barack Obama,
781:Take the first step in the direction toward something that feels right and see where it leads you. And do it NOW. 3. ~ Jen Sincero,
782:Every moment is a moment of decision, and every moment turns us inexorably in the direction of the rest of our lives. ~ Mary Balogh,
783:Everyone had memorized a chant of names and villages along footpaths in every direction. This was a very useful map. ~ Rory Stewart,
784:For present buying, I go to Harrods because there are great personal shoppers, who point me in the right direction. ~ Frank Lampard,
785:He walks through the river of refugees and soldiers, giving purpose and direction to people who would otherwise be lost. ~ Susan Ee,
786:If Black Stache laughed, you laughed. If he snarled, you snarled. If he breathed in your direction, you ran for cover. ~ Dave Barry,
787:IF EVERYONE HAS A full circle of human qualities to complete, then progress lies in the direction we haven’t been. ~ Gloria Steinem,
788:If you board the wrong train it is no use running along the corridor in the opposite direction. —DIETRICH BONHOEFFER ~ Eric Metaxas,
789:I will accept your influence, guidance and direction if (and only if) I believe that you and I share similar goals. ~ David Maister,
790:Like a ship changing course. It might take a while to get to port, but at least it was going in the right direction. ~ Louise Penny,
791:The Dragon's tower is a long way in the other direction, a piece of chalk stuck in the base of the western mountains. ~ Naomi Novik,
792:The hangers that held his hanging clothes had been aligned in the same direction. All of it had been arranged by color. ~ Wendy Wax,
793:To get from where we don’t want to be to where we do want to be requires two things: time and a change of direction. ~ Andy Stanley,
794:When others put you down for who you are or what you're doing, it just means that you're going in the right direction. ~ Tsem Tulku,
795:Allowance of the freedom of choices in direction, either for the group or individuals particularly in the near future. ~ Carl Rogers,
796:And he misses her Like a wind starved sail He sits knowing what direction to go But the current keeps pulling him Down river. ~ Rumi,
797:Decide in your heart of hearts what really excites and challenges you, and start moving your life in that direction ~ Chris Hadfield,
798:For the machine, because of the way it is built, can work only in a given direction, no matter who pulls its levers. ~ Rudolf Rocker,
799:If I am dead I cannot sponsor your travels. Except, clearly, in a direction you will never be called on to follow. ~ Dorothy Dunnett,
800:I was uncertain of our direction, but I knew one thing with perfect clarity: I was in the arms of a man who loved me. ~ Dannika Dark,
801:Know that you can make a difference in the world by being true to yourself, and moving in the direction of your dreams! ~ Judy Davis,
802:Music is more like water than a rhinoceros. It doesn't charge madly down one path. It runs away in every direction. ~ Elvis Costello,
803:Or in other words, why does disorder increase in the same direction of time as that in which the universe expands? ~ Stephen Hawking,
804:[...]Quand on est en possession d'une base stable et d'une direction sûre, on n'éprouve nul besoin de changement. [...] ~ Ren Gu non,
805:She was the kind of gal that if she set her sights on a man, he'd be running in the opposite direction real quick. ~ Johanna Lindsey,
806:The cosmos is structured to bring about growth, and growth is always in the direction of greater love and happiness. ~ Deepak Chopra,
807:The genitals themselves have not undergone the development of the rest of the human form in the direction of beauty. ~ Sigmund Freud,
808:The great thing in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES ~ Brian Tracy,
809:The least practical of us have some petty thrift dear to our hearts, some one direction in which we love to scrimp. ~ Agnes Repplier,
810:Websites ask people personal questions, tell them what to do with their time, and point them in a specific direction ~ Nicole Fenton,
811:Where the mind goes the man follows. Keep your mind going in the right direction, and your life will catch up with it. ~ Joyce Meyer,
812:You can't count a man out because one record went different direction. You gotta count the things that scored, not the misses. ~ Nas,
813:4. If you push yourself hard in the direction of freedom, compassion, and excellence, you will recover.
True/False ~ Kiese Laymon,
814:Develop the habit of getting daily direction from God...When you do, He will lead you down the best path for your life. ~ Joel Osteen,
815:Great changes in the direction of peace have often come from people who were no great advocates of peace to begin with. ~ Orhan Pamuk,
816:How was work?” I asked to keep the conversation going. Even if it was a downhill direction, movement was movement. ~ Rachel Hawthorne,
817:It has been more profitable for us to bind together in the wrong direction than to be alone in the right one. ~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb,
818:I was content in my universe and didn't want to change it at all, even though I was being propelled in that direction. ~ Paulo Coelho,
819:Life’s thrown shots at me from every direction. Through all of it, I learned that distance is its own kind of armor. ~ Scott Reintgen,
820:Maybe he was the same. A bullet in a chamber, spending his whole life waiting for the moment he would have direction. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
821:Most of us follow our conscience as we follow a wheelbarrow. We push it in front of us in the direction we want to go. ~ Billy Graham,
822:People hear your records in order, and they think of you as progressing in some direction, but it's not really like that. ~ King Khan,
823:Prayer opens our eyes for ourselves and through clarification enables us to step forward in the direction of hope. ~ Henri J M Nouwen,
824:The fragrance of flowers spreads only in the direction of the wind. But the goodness of a person spreads in all direction. ~ Chanakya,
825:The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up. ~ Frederick Lenz,
826:The secret to unseating great power, is not to move the other direction, but to compete directly against their goals. ~ Bryant McGill,
827:Unless we change direction, models show that the profit of the entire consumer goods sector could be wiped out by 2050. ~ Paul Polman,
828:[Woody Allen] does very few takes, and he doesn't give a whole ton of directions, although he does give direction. ~ Alden Ehrenreich,
829:You know, you don't need to grow old to die. I was dying at the age of 20 as a result of no direction and no purpose. ~ Grant Cardone,
830:A few moments may change our character for life, by giving a totally different direction to our aims and energies. ~ Elizabeth Gaskell,
831:Each man has his own vocation; his talent is his call. There is one direction in which all space is open to him. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
832:He had an instinct for mischief in his head, just as some people have a way with numbers or a clear sense of direction. ~ Stephen King,
833:I’m just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may I say, young fairy lady, they’re running wild in your direction. ~ Eoin Colfer,
834:Leaders are to provide direction and intent and allow others to figure out what to do and how to get there.” And this is ~ Simon Sinek,
835:Never joined the wrong boat. When the destination is right, and the direction is wronged, everything goes wrongly! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
836:Retreat, hell! We're just attacking in the opposite direction! - U.S. Marine Corps commander,  Changjin Reservoir, Korea ~ Larry Niven,
837:The direction you don't look at is the fate you missed! If you look at every direction, you will rule every fate! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
838:The Korean economic miracle was the result of a clever and pragmatic mixture of market incentives and state direction. ~ Ha Joon Chang,
839:The naked public square cannot remain naked, the direction is toward the state-as-church, toward totalitarianism.”6 ~ Charles W Colson,
840:The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
841:We cannot and must not get rid of nor deny our characteristics. But we can give them shape and direction. ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,
842:Your husband is lazy if when he leaves the house, he finds out which way the wind is blowing and goes that direction. ~ Phyllis Diller,
843:consider merely that all types of awareness are trance states... consciousness is the direction in which the self looks. ~ Jane Roberts,
844:If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, he will meet with success unexpected in common hours. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
845:I'm a huge fan of Brad Pitt. He could have done rom-coms his entire career, but he took it in a different direction. ~ Daniel Radcliffe,
846:In college, my teachers were usually after me for going after comedy too much, leaning too much in that direction. ~ Mary Louise Parker,
847:It is better to take many small steps in the right direction than to make a great leap forward only to stumble backward. ~ Louis Sachar,
848:It's good to steer a man in the direction he intended to go. It blurs the line between what he wants and what you want. ~ Mark Lawrence,
849:It was necessary that spirituality sink to its lowest ebb that it should rise to the highest pinnacle in another direction. ~ Anonymous,
850:I was so frustrated in Sabbath after the last few albums. I just didn't like the musical direction Sabbath was going in ~ Geezer Butler,
851:Next to doing a good job yourself, the greatest joy is having someone else do a first class job under your direction. ~ William Feather,
852:Nicaragua was destabilizing Central America, meaning moving in a direction the US didn't like. So Nicaragua was crushed. ~ Noam Chomsky,
853:Parents can only advise their children or point them in the right direction. Ultimately people shape their own characters. ~ Anne Frank,
854:The stars are laboratories in which the evolution of matter proceeds in the direction of large molecules. ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
855:Things don't always work out the way we hope. You just have to pick yourself up and find a new direction to go in. ~ Joelle Charbonneau,
856:This thirst for personal success, and this continual concentration of the mind in one direction, makes people cold, and ~ Anton Chekhov,
857:We go in dark, quiet, and at a crawl. We do not gravitate, transmit, or even fart in the general direction of that thing. ~ Evan Currie,
858:We're never ready for the things that happen. When the big stuff happens, we're always looking in the other direction. ~ Kelly Corrigan,
859:When the whole world is running towards a cliff, he who is running in the opposite direction appears to have lost his mind. ~ C S Lewis,
860:Why do I spend every moment with you thinking about why I did not go in the opposite direction when I had the chance? ~ Isabella Carter,
861:Worldly fame is but a breath of wind that blows now this way, and now that, and changes name as it changes direction. ~ Dante Alighieri,
862:A man who has spent his primal strength in journeying in one direction has not much spirit left for reversing his course. ~ Thomas Hardy,
863:An artwork should point in more than one direction, not be this sort of placating, self-demonstrating, witnessing element. ~ Luc Tuymans,
864:Every time Donald Trump thinks things are not going in his direction, he claims whatever it is, is rigged against him. ~ Hillary Clinton,
865:Experiences teaches us that to love is not to gaze at one another but to gaze together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
866:Hermes played a little Mozart and some One Direction, and Apollo cried, ‘I must have it! The girls will go wild for that! ~ Rick Riordan,
867:He smiles and waves a hand in that direction, and we both begin walking. “But if I were asking to spend the night . . . ~ Colleen Hoover,
868:How are you supposed to get everyone to pull in the same direction when they are all pulling primarily for themselves? ~ Steven D Levitt,
869:I may even show up behind the camera. I love to put things together; I love to give direction. I have a great eye for pace. ~ J B Smoove,
870:Quitting—whether a job or a habit—means taking a turn so as to be sure you’re still moving in the direction of your dreams. ~ Rolf Potts,
871:We all make mistakes... but it's also a step in the right direction. If nothing else it's a step away from the wrong one. ~ Adam Silvera,
872:You ever think about running again, it better be in my motherfucking direction. I’m the one you run to when shit goes down ~ Alexa Riley,
873:After a while, the characters I'm writing begin to feel real to me. That's when I know I'm heading in the right direction ~ Alice Hoffman,
874:After following the crowd for a while, I'd then go 180 degrees in the exact opposite direction. It always worked for me. ~ Elliott Erwitt,
875:A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step." Lao Tzu. "Just try to make sure that you step in the right direction. ~ Lao Tzu,
876:America's eyes darted in Kara's direction. "Good idea, Kara. The fact that you're a total bitch comes in handy sometimes. ~ Jamie McGuire,
877:A piece of sculpture can have a hole through it and not be weakened if the hole is of a studied size, shape, and direction. ~ Henry Moore,
878:Backward is just not a natural direction for Americans to look - historical ignorance remains a national characteristic. ~ Larry McMurtry,
879:Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
880:fatigue is a creation of the mind. Fatigue dominates the lives of those who are living without direction and dreams. Let ~ Robin S Sharma,
881:I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold,
882:If one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined... ~ Henry David Thoreau,
883:If you think down, you will go down. If you think up, you will go up. You’ll always travel in the direction of your thinking. ~ T D Jakes,
884:It is not yet a feeling that points her in a direction. It is just the feeling of a vacuum, a void waiting to be filled. ~ Eleanor Catton,
885:No matter how awful the world is... you must be strong of will. The direction your life takes... is for you alone to decide. ~ Inio Asano,
886:Now I see it clearly. My whole life has pointed in one direction. I see that now. There never has been any choice for me. ~ Paul Schrader,
887:She had her aim now, her heart had direction, and though it hurt to know the path led away from him, she could endure it. ~ Leigh Bardugo,
888:The likelihood of getting lost is directly proportional to the number of times the direction-giver says, 'You can't miss it'. ~ Hal Roach,
889:What other people label or might try to call failure, I have learned is just God's way of pointing you in a new direction ~ Oprah Winfrey,
890:When the crowd follows you, their noise can misguide you. When you follow the crowd, their direction may mislead you. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
891:You were born to journey in the direction of your purpose. Anything that halts your progress is contrary to your design. ~ Steve Maraboli,
892:Before we met, I was as lost as a person could be, and yet you saw something in me that somehow gave me direction again. ~ Nicholas Sparks,
893:Certainly these men who had so few spontaneous ideas might be very useful members of society under good feminine direction, ~ George Eliot,
894:Everything isn't fixable, and miracles are only happy twists of fate. Fate can so easily twist in the opposite direction. ~ Tammara Webber,
895:Failure is just a way for our lives to show us we're moving in the wrong direction, that we should try something different ~ Oprah Winfrey,
896:Feelings are the directional impulses of your soul. Your soul always wants you to go into the direction of greater joy. ~ Stephen Richards,
897:Grandpa Patterson used to say: Never approach a bull from the front, a horse from the rear or a fool from any direction. ~ Debbie Macomber,
898:If we have trouble hearing Him, He will faithfully work in our lives until we are pointed in the direction He wants us to go. ~ Tony Dungy,
899:In a sacred moment, when attention is pulled inward, rather than continuing in its usual outward direction, silence is realized. ~ Gangaji,
900:I think eating in itself is the act of great sensuality, so all you have to do is point the camera in the right direction. ~ Padma Lakshmi,
901:No one will guide you in the right direction, in the end you have to learn for yourself. You have to grow up yourself. ~ Matthew Macfadyen,
902:People compare me to Isiah Thomas because of my quickness and change-of-direction, the way I change speeds and run the team. ~ Baron Davis,
903:You can try to steer your life in a certain direction all you want, but ultimately, the wind is in charge of your sail. ~ Claire Contreras,
904:Your soul is always trying to guide you in your true life direction towards your highest good and greatest happiness. ~ Catherine Carrigan,
905:All religions are like different cars all moving in the same direction. People who don't see it have no light in their hearts. ~ Ajahn Chah,
906:A lot of performing instincts are involved in the business of direction, but so is analysis and having a sense of literature. ~ Trevor Nunn,
907:And below the heimongmong, all along the ground, were weeds already spilling out over the edges, running wild in every direction. ~ Amy Tan,
908:But time was a beast, a big, indolent immovable beast that wasn’t interested in my efforts at hastening it in any direction. ~ Piper Kerman,
909:Freedom shouldn't move like an arrow, in a singular direction. It should flow like an ocean, swallowing the whole horizon. ~ Romina Russell,
910:Help your employees in the direction of their dreams and you will create the most dynamic environment in corporate America! ~ Matthew Kelly,
911:In hearing the word, we look into it for counsel and direction, and when we study it, it turns to our spiritual life. Those ~ Matthew Henry,
912:I think most directors subscribe to the principle that less is more, and the best direction is the most concise direction. ~ Joshua Marston,
913:I want to achieve anti-fashion through fashion. That's why I'm always heading in my own direction, in parallel to fashion. ~ Yohji Yamamoto,
914:Life feels more like you're on the wrong train barreling off in the wrong direction and there's nothing you can do about it. ~ Jandy Nelson,
915:No one chooses his parent or childhood, but you can choose your own direction. Everyone has problems and obstacles to overcome. ~ Anonymous,
916:ou must always know that the direction you walk is always very important because may be some people are following you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
917:Right." A soft, choked laugh. "Kind of ruins the dramatic effect if I'm storming off in the wrong direction, doesn't it? ~ Kelley Armstrong,
918:Second, they knew in a very, very deep way what it was they wanted. They not only had determination, they had direction. ~ Angela Duckworth,
919:That ship is loaded with treasure, but there's a hole in the ship. And my job is to get everyone to row in the same direction. ~ Gil Amelio,
920:The beauty of traveling solo is that you wonder unexpectedly, but almost certainly into the direction you were meant to go. ~ Shannon Ables,
921:They say your genetics are going to set your direction regardless of what happens, but I think there's more to it than that. ~ Charles Koch,
922:When men begin to function in their homes, accountable to the guidance and direction of a leader in the church, things change. ~ Tony Evans,
923:You must always be prepared to place a bet on yourself, on your future, by heading in a direction that others seem to fear. ~ Robert Greene,
924:Accept ignorance; pay more attention to the question than the answer; never be afraid to go in the opposite direction. ~ Richard Saul Wurman,
925:A pain stabbed my heart as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. ~ Jack Kerouac,
926:I had the sense of direction of a lame duck that couldn’t follow the flock in front of him to get to where he needed to be. ~ Lani Lynn Vale,
927:Lasting happiness comes from steadily working to accomplish your goals and advancing in the direction of your life's purpose. ~ Robin Sharma,
928:Life isn't fair. Not from any direction. I live in the inconceivable grace of God every day of my life. That's not fair either. ~ Beth Moore,
929:Mud and water and the stumps of trees. In every direction that was all there was. Bodies fell, but the trees died standing up. ~ Josh Ritter,
930:Parker gives a head nod in my direction and I hide a grin. “He’s supposed to be in rehab for sex addiction. Seems he got out. ~ Lauren Layne,
931:So the universe is constantly moving in the direction of higher evolutionary impulses, creativity, abstraction, and meaning. ~ Deepak Chopra,
932:Spiritual direction is an interpersonal relationship in which we learn how to grow, live, and love in the spiritual life. ~ Richard J Foster,
933:...the faith state...is the psychic correlate of a biological growth reducing contending-desires to one direction... [p.272] ~ William James,
934:We knew we did not lay down the direction of the street, but despite that, we could—and must—fashion the way of our walk. ~ Ta Nehisi Coates,
935:When the dominant images of a culture are anticipatory, they "lead" social development and provide direction for social change. ~ Fred Polak,
936:With my heart racing, I ran in the other direction; leaving the rest of this rescue to people who actually want to be heroes. ~ Jodi Picoult,
937:A pain stabbed my heart, as it did every time I saw a girl I loved who was going the opposite direction in this too-big world. ~ Jack Kerouac,
938:Baseball has done more to move America in the right direction than all of the professional patriots with all their cheap words. ~ Monte Irvin,
939:By keeping him directionless, his parents kept
him on track – in direction. That is what he
understood. Understands now! ~ Raj Doctor,
940:Each time you set and reach a goal, you'll discover a sense of contentment that breeds a stronger sense of direction and joy. ~ Emilie Barnes,
941:Faith upholds a Christian under all trials, by assuring him that every painful dispensation is under the direction of his Lord. ~ John Newton,
942:I can point you in a certain direction, maybe draw you a map and give you some ideas. I can’t carry you where you need to go. ~ Eric Greitens,
943:In the study of consciousness you cannot explain anything verbally. You can only allude to, point in a general direction of. ~ Frederick Lenz,
944:I think if you study--if you learn too much of what others have done, you may tend to take the same direction as everybody else. ~ Jim Henson,
945:Just because someone doesn’t fly with all the birds doesn’t mean he’s nuts. The flock could be going in the wrong direction. ~ Tony Bertauski,
946:My life has no purpose, no direction, no aim, no meaning, and yet I'm happy. I can't figure it out. What am I doing right? ~ Charles M Schulz,
947:Our stories go in every direction, but sometimes, if we're lucky, our stories join into one, and for a while, we're less alone. ~ Jess Walter,
948:Packs a Huge Emotional Punch! Graceful Writing, Great Acting, Exquisite Direction, Suspense, Profound Subject Matter and It Rocks! ~ Rex Reed,
949:That made me think of the cables again—cables running in every direction, a subcutaneous webwork connecting people and places. ~ Stephen King,
950:There exists a future so bright that if you squint your eyes in the right direction you can see it shimmering in the distance. ~ Jesse Jacobs,
951:There's nothing better than being able to give your children wings so they can soar and fly in the direction they want to go in. ~ Paula Deen,
952:Today you asked me what "Dick" meant, and while I was deciding what direction I should take, you said, "Mom said you were one. ~ Rachel Khong,
953:To look at the issue of life and abortion, actually we're moving in that direction where most Americans oppose most abortions. ~ Barack Obama,
954:Two heads are better than one, not because either is infallible, but because they are unlikely to go wrong in the same direction. ~ C S Lewis,
955:We know that much of the training and the direction for terrorists comes from Pakistan and the border area with Afghanistan ~ Hillary Clinton,
956:Your success lies behind your choices... To get there, you must choose it and drive your dreams in that chosen direction! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
957:You've got to think about big things while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. ~ Alvin Toffler,
958:You’ve got to think about big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. ~ Alvin Toffler,
959:By just looking at a different direction than others, you may gain the vision of a genius because geniuses often do this! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
960:Every glance, every touch, every whisper between us has been a pebble added to the scales, tipping me toward a new direction. ~ Jessica Khoury,
961:Fear and greed are potent motivators. When both of these forces push in the same direction, virtually no human being can resist. ~ Andrew Weil,
962:If a comparative-literature major had existed at Harvard College for undergraduates I would have surely gone in that direction. ~ Louis Begley,
963:I told the truth about steroids and human growth hormone. I injected those drugs into the body of Roger Clemens at his direction. ~ Jim Lehrer,
964:It's mental discipline that sets one apart, the ability to think differently and to generate energy in the right direction. ~ Sachin Tendulkar,
965:Letting off ammunition in every direction, Allah is my only protection. But wait a minute, Saddam Hussein prays the same. ~ Louis Eric Barrier,
966:Live the life you’ve imagined,” I begin, and she jumps in to finish with me. “Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. ~ Lauren Blakely,
967:She didn’t have a compass, a map, or even a decent sense of direction. She wasn’t certain she would recognize herself. ~ Christina Baker Kline,
968:Small events and choices determine the direction of our lives just as small helms determine the directions of great ships. ~ M Russell Ballard,
969:That is your trick, your bit of filthy magic: invisibility, and the anaesthetic power to deaden my attention in your direction. ~ D H Lawrence,
970:There are four directions: North, South, East, and West. We are going in the fifth direction, which is the direction of stories. ~ Sean Taylor,
971:Those that sincerely design and endeavour to do their duty may in faith beg of God direction and strength for the doing of it. ~ Matthew Henry,
972:Those whom the Lord favours not with the direction of his Spirit, he, by a righteous judgement, consigns to the agency of Satan. ~ John Calvin,
973:We are lucky to live in a world made up of so many different kinds of people and I am confident in the direction we are going. ~ Ashley Graham,
974:When you don't know where you are going in life (No Clear Destination), you don't need direction... you need Divine Revelation ~ Fela Durotoye,
975:Where you stand today does not matter; it is the direction in which your are moving, and the rate at which you travel, that count. ~ Emmet Fox,
976:You can only push someone so far before that push sends them walking away in the opposite direction. Everyone has their limits. ~ Belle Aurora,
977:You're living in the present. It's a reminder that you can see the future if you just point the glass in the right direction. ~ Maria V Snyder,
978:A golden half-moon graced the black velvet sky, no clouds in sight, allowing a blanket of stars to twinkle in every direction. ~ Gena Showalter,
979:Every choice changed the road you were on and it was too easy to end up going in the wrong direction. Sometimes, settling down ~ Kristin Hannah,
980:He hadn’t been gentle or soulful these past three days. Which was good. Gentle and soulful was for One Direction fans and idiots. ~ Anne Malcom,
981:Law Number XXXIX: Never promise to complete any project within six months of the end of the year, in either direction. ~ Norman Ralph Augustine,
982:More and more people seem to be separating from nature. I'm trying to go in a different direction. I'm getting closer and closer. ~ Dean Potter,
983:Nothing shows the direction of the deep winds of the soul like the demand for radical, sin-destroying, Christ-exalting joy in God. ~ John Piper,
984:The future is too soon the past. So make perseverance your excellence and go confidently in the direction of your dreams. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
985:The kind of friend who helps you remember which way is up. And who reminds you that sometimes that's the only direction you can go. ~ Nina Lane,
986:the more egalitarian a group claims to be, the more it depends on baboon politics to maintain group cohesion and direction ~ John Michael Greer,
987:The Venus Project presents a bold, new direction for humanity that entails nothing less than the total redesign of our culture. ~ Jacque Fresco,
988:Time is not at all what it seems. It does not flow in only one direction, and the future exists simultaneously with the past. ~ Albert Einstein,
989:With one curious look flung in my direction, the Empress of Vegetables turned on her heel and marched back into her domain. ~ Alexandra Bracken,
990:You've got to think about 'big things' while you're doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. ~ Alvin Toffler,
991:Allow whatever you feel deep within you in that quiet and peaceful space to guide you in the direction that is your true destiny. ~ Wayne W Dyer,
992:If I didn't believe in this team and this organization and the direction that we're headed, I wouldn't have signed the extension. ~ LeBron James,
993:In the jungle of ideas, it is hard to find the true direction! The paths of the wrong ideas often seem to be very alluring! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
994:In whatever direction you turn, you will see God coming to meet you; nothing is void of him, he himself fills all his work. ~ Seneca the Younger,
995:It is amazing how a new child can refocus one's direction seconds after its birth. Everything falls into a feeling of 'rightness'. ~ David Bowie,
996:Our vices always lie in the direction of our virtues, and in their best estate are but plausible imitations of the latter. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
997:Spiritual direction involves a process through which one person helps another person understand what God is doing and saying. ~ Richard J Foster,
998:Thankfully, beauty is easier to remove than apply, and a swipe of demaquillage in the right direction and you are you once again. ~ Margaret Cho,
999:The most important role of a leader is to set a clear direction, be transparent about how to get there and to stay the course. ~ Irene Rosenfeld,
1000:The university must be retrospective. The gale that gives direction to the vanes on all its towers blows out of antiquity. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1001:this is a great formula for moving in the direction of any calling: find what you love and what the world needs, then combine them. ~ Jeff Goins,
1002:we can help pave the roads of those around us, but we can’t choose their direction. Even trying is against the laws of samsara. ~ Michelle Moran,
1003:When the whole world is running headlong towards the precipice, one who walks in the opposite direction is looked at as being crazy. ~ T S Eliot,
1004:When we clear the physical clutter from our lives, we literally make way for inspiration and 'good, orderly direction' to enter. ~ Julia Cameron,
1005:When you think about it, we´re all insane, we just don´t know it till we´re given a little push in the wrong direction. ~ Alexander Gordon Smith,
1006:You can go a surprisingly long time without figuring out the kind of person you are and in what direction your life is taking you. ~ Carolyn See,
1007:And he misses her
Like a wind starved sail
He sits knowing what direction to go
But the current keeps pulling him
Down river. ~ Rumi,
1008:God's Word is especially suited to directing those who want to focus primarily on the nature and direction of their own hearts. ~ James MacDonald,
1009:It's a rule worth having in mind. Income almost always flows along the same axis as power but in the opposite direction. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith,
1010:Man, as we know him, is a poor creature; he is halfway between an ape and a god and he is travelling in the right direction. ~ William Ralph Inge,
1011:My obligation, if I become president, is to give another direction to Europe than the one that is being forced upon us today. ~ Francois Hollande,
1012:Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic. ~ Gerald Jampolsky,
1013:Our eyes see different things, I thought. They always have. Even when we're looking in the same direction, standing side by side. ~ Cameron Dokey,
1014:People behave as if they were blind and deaf. This is the cunning mind which goes on saying: Don’t go in this direction – there is danger. ~ Osho,
1015:The literature of science is filled with answers found when the question propounded had an entirely different direction and end. ~ John Steinbeck,
1016:There's always going to be someone who hates you. There's always going to be people who love you. It's a risk in either direction. ~ Samantha Bee,
1017:The sensation of a baseball bat to the face was not any more pleasant when it came from an unexpected direction, without warning. ~ John C Wright,
1018:When you see your child’s behavior trending in a direction you don’t like, ask yourself, “Is he hungry, angry, lonely, or tired ~ Daniel J Siegel,
1019:You can only fight Fate so far, and when you give in to it you're very strong; because all of your force flows in one direction. ~ John Steinbeck,
1020:A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life. ~ Carl Jung,
1021:But why look back at all? Why turn your eyes to your shadow, when, by looking upward, you see your rainbow in the same direction? ~ Maria Mitchell,
1022:I had never thought about being a professional fighter but meeting Pat [ Militich ] and the guys just pushed me in that direction. ~ Robbie Lawler,
1023:It was like he was being pulled in a single direction, but by two diametrically opposed forces—if such a thing could be possible. ~ Michael Bunker,
1024:There's no new direction. It's not more poppy or more rocky. They're just rock'n'roll tunes. I'll never change the music I write. ~ Noel Gallagher,
1025:We are all wrong so often that it amazes me that we can have any conviction at all over the direction of things to come. But we must. ~ Jim Cramer,
1026:When you involve yourself in a group like No Labels, …I think it is a positive step in the right direction of trying to get things done ~ Tom Reed,
1027:When you see your child’s behavior trending in a direction you don’t like, ask yourself, “Is he hungry, angry, lonely, or tired? ~ Daniel J Siegel,
1028:You know how many there are. You can't convince them and you can't kill 'em. You can only do your best in the opposite direction... ~ Susan Cooper,
1029:I did go to a performing arts school, so that facilitated my creativity, though I ended up going in a more musical direction. ~ Alycia Debnam Carey,
1030:If you're walking with somebody, you're heading in the same direction, and the spatial dance you're doing is a little more cooperative. ~ Scott Kim,
1031:I think we as human beings need to be able to appreciate each other's differences and I think jazz really takes us in that direction. ~ Herb Alpert,
1032:I've always been a fiction filmmaker and I've been heading in the direction of fiction filmmaking, doing documentaries along the way. ~ Lucy Walker,
1033:Modern architecture does not mean the use of immature new materials; the main thing is to refine materials in a more human direction. ~ Alvar Aalto,
1034:Saturate your day in His grace.
Entrust your day to His oversight.
Accept His direction.
Grace, Oversight, Direction
G-O-D ~ Max Lucado,
1035:Success comes from continually expanding your frontiers in every direction - creatively, financially, spiritually, and physically. ~ James Altucher,
1036:The direction for my music is heaven, of course. We gear all things to the realm of heaven - which is the mind, the organized mind. ~ Richie Havens,
1037:The true direction of the development of thinking is not from the individual to the social, but from the social to the individual. ~ Lev S Vygotsky,
1038:You’re crazy, uncalculated and lethal for me.” I take a step in her direction. “So yeah. Being by your side is exactly where I should be ~ L J Shen,
1039:Your gut is your inner compass. Whenever you have to consult with other people for an answer, you're headed in the wrong direction. ~ Oprah Winfrey,
1040:“A special ability means a heavy expenditure of energy in a particular direction, with a consequent drain from some other side of life.” ~ Carl Jung,
1041:Change is inevitable and life changes as swiftly as the wind blows. It’s which direction that you let the wind blow you that matters. ~ Quinn Loftis,
1042:Having one perfect thing was less important than having a range of ideas, realizing they were all taking you in a certain direction. ~ Robert Benton,
1043:It is doubly a fault, you know, when against nature one assumes the color of a virtue, warping one's character in a direction not its own. ~ Erasmus,
1044:Life is like a Road Atlas. Depending on the direction you choose, some roads may lead to heaven, and others may lead you to hell. ~ Robert M Roberts,
1045:Love is a wave flowing in the direction of bliss for all living things. It will carry you if you allow it to flow through you. ~ Marianne Williamson,
1046:Orion to holly : im just a teenager with hormones running wild. And may i say young fairy lady, they're running wild in your direction ~ Eoin Colfer,
1047:Point me in the right direction, and shut the fuck up. I'm the one calling the shots now. Fall in line or fall down a fucking well. ~ Robert Kirkman,
1048:Say Say Say What you want But don't play games With my affection Take take take What you need But don't leave me With no direction ~ Michael Jackson,
1049:Servants were the main topic of conversation in St. Mary Mead, so it was not difficult to lead the conversation in that direction. ~ Agatha Christie,
1050:The new Islamic science, like Creationism in the West, is a reaction against modern science. It is not a new direction of science. ~ Pervez Hoodbhoy,
1051:The only way we're gonna work with Donald Trump is if he moves completely in our direction and abandons his Republican colleagues. ~ Charles Schumer,
1052:There is one thing pleasantly unconfusing about medicine. The direction and the end are fixed and the patient never works backward. ~ John Steinbeck,
1053:We are not in a position in which we have nothing to work with. We already have capacities, talents, direction, missions, callings. ~ Abraham Maslow,
1054:When the music arrives in my mind, it gives me the direction and the form at the same time. It's integrated into the music itself. ~ John McLaughlin,
1055:As I have repeated incessantly throughout this book, there is no direction you can turn that does not face you toward certain death. ~ Nnedi Okorafor,
1056:Ideas by themselves cannot produce change of being; your effort must go in the right direction, and one must correspond to the other. ~ P D Ouspensky,
1057:If you create a place where the best people always have a seat on the bus, they’re more likely to support changes in direction. For ~ James C Collins,
1058:If you take a wrong direction in life, you shouldn’t expect God, through divine intervention, to change it and suddenly make it better. ~ Leo Tolstoy,
1059:In my view, a political vision is not a grab-bag of discrete problems and solutions. It is the visionary anticipation of a direction. ~ Roberto Unger,
1060:It is now a documented principle of psychology that human beings subconsciously move in the direction of their most dominant thought. ~ Napoleon Hill,
1061:Know where you are going. The great thing in the world is not knowing so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving. ~ A P J Abdul Kalam,
1062:Leadership is about focus and concentrations. To be in focus, choose a clear direction. To concentrate, remain in that direction! ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1063:Like the swan flying north in its yearly migration, the true human being moves powerfully forward in one direction, toward Truth alone. ~ Roger Walsh,
1064:Men are so difficult - If they think you're trying to push them in a particular direction they dig in their heels and won't budge. ~ Lauren Henderson,
1065:My teacher says that everything that you want in the world is one step away, you just have to figure out which direction to step in. ~ Ashton Kutcher,
1066:Nice, bah. He's gorgeous." Magnus gazed dreamily in his direction. "You should leave him here. I could hang hats on him and things. ~ Cassandra Clare,
1067:One by one, other girls look in his direction. Yeah, Logan has that effect on females—all females. And quite a few guys, I might add. ~ Vera Nazarian,
1068:Run as far as you can in the direction of your best and happiest dreams across the bridge that was built by your own desire to heal. ~ Cheryl Strayed,
1069:The nature of a society is largely determined by the direction in which talent and ambition flow - by the tilt of the social landscape. ~ Eric Hoffer,
1070:To follow Jesus implies that we enter into a way of life that is given character and shape and direction by the one who calls us. ~ Eugene H Peterson,
1071:We want to stay on the straight and narrow path and serve God, yet we continue a practice that often pulls us in the wrong direction. ~ Joshua Harris,
1072:Women who do look like men have taken some rather drastic steps in that direction that have little to do with their exercise program. ~ Mark Rippetoe,
1073:And so. And so I choose to go on serving it. I choose to go north, even though like every other direction, it is rationally without hope. ~ John Green,
1074:Guilt is a useless feeling. It's never enough to make you change direction- only enough to paralyze you and make you... well, useless. ~ Daniel Nayeri,
1075:I'm a conservative, and I'm a compassionate conservative. And I think it's important that Florida continues to move in that direction. ~ Charlie Crist,
1076:I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were. ~ Elvis Presley,
1077:Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait. ~ Oswald Chambers,
1078:...she had begun to learn that success was sometimes simply a matter of having the courage to proceed in the direction of one's dreams. ~ Karleen Koen,
1079:Strange / to wish wishes no longer. / Strange / to see things / that seemed to / belong together / floating in every / direction. ~ Rainer Maria Rilke,
1080:Thank Christ!” Marks yelled to an invisible audience, pointing all his fingers in Val’s general direction. “A straight fucking answer! ~ Jamie McGuire,
1081:They are the moon; we are a tide, their tide, and under their direction we will wipe clean all the sickness and blight from the world. ~ Lauren Oliver,
1082:Those who seem to load the public taste are, in general, merely outrunning it in the direction which it is spontaneously pursuing. ~ Thomas B Macaulay,
1083:Try to fix firmly in your mind what you would like to do; and then, without veering off direction, you will move straight to the goal. ~ Dale Carnegie,
1084:We took the elevator back down from the first observation level of the Eiffel Tower and started walking in he direction of the Taj Mahal ~ D J MacHale,
1085:Which direction?" Robard asked.
"Robard," I said exasperated, "we need a boat. I believe boats are kept at or near the ocean. ~ Michael P Spradlin,
1086:You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn't deceive anybody. It's the deceivers who make you feel bad. ~ Charles Bukowski,
1087:You can forgive a fool because he only runs in one direction and doesn’t deceive anybody. It’s the deceivers who make you feel bad. ~ Charles Bukowski,
1088:Fate always had a way of intervening. Pushed everyone in the right direction. The thing with fate though, was that someone always got hurt. ~ S E Jakes,
1089:God can give us words of comfort or direction, and we can be very excited, filled with faith, feeling bold and able to conquer the enemy. ~ Joyce Meyer,
1090:I'm going in a really weird I-don't-know-where direction, but I prefer anything [different] from how standardized filmmaking has become. ~ Gus Van Sant,
1091:It was possible, I knew, to live on two planes at once—to have one’s feet planted in reality but pointed in the direction of progress. ~ Michelle Obama,
1092:Loyalty is just the wheels on the bus ... meaning that it keeps things moving but it's neutral when it comes to the direction they move in. ~ M R Carey,
1093:My life is a pitiful, mechanical thing without a past, like a little wind-up car, ready to run in any direction someone points me. ~ Barbara Kingsolver,
1094:Once we merge with the Core
Trusting the efficiency
Of our Soul’s intent
The Flow becomes
The only possible direction ~ Nata a Nuit Pantovi,
1095:Passion requires focused direction, and that direction must come from three other areas: your purpose, your talents, and your needs.
   ~ Steve Pavlina,
1096:So I did what any sane person would do. I jammed the pitchfork in the general direction of his foot and ran like hell for the house... ~ Beth Fantaskey,
1097:The American moron’s mind simply does not run in that direction; he wants to keep his Ford, even at the cost of losing the Bill of Rights ~ H L Mencken,
1098:The flow of work goes in one direction only: forward. Create a system of work in it that does that. Remember, the goal is single-piece flow. ~ Gene Kim,
1099:The love of our own language, what is it, in fact, but the love of our country expressing itself in one particular direction? ~ Richard Chenevix Trench,
1100:The time to shift your priorities in the direction of Destiny is never convenient. There will always be a reason to put it off until later. ~ T D Jakes,
1101:The upper current of society presents no pertain criterion by which we can judge of the direction in which the under current flows. ~ Thomas B Macaulay,
1102:You sure you don't want me to bring you back something?" Her eyes moved in the direction of his office. "A hit man? Some holy water? ~ Christina Lauren,
1103:Be on the right way and go in the right direction. Once you are never going back, you will progress day after day, little by little. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1104:compass represents our vision, values, principles, mission, conscience, direction—what we feel is important and how we lead our lives. ~ Stephen R Covey,
1105:Few born liars ever intentionally embark in truth’s direction, even those who believe that such a journey might axiomatically set them free. ~ Mary Karr,
1106:He obviously needed more practice, but no matter how often I abandoned him out there, his sense of direction never seemed to improve. ~ Kelley Armstrong,
1107:He sauntered across the kitchen, six feet of male hotness and charm, heading in her direction like a drone missile locked on a target. ~ Melissa McClone,
1108:His nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. ~ Marcel Proust,
1109:I am persuaded, you will permit me to observe, that the path of true piety is so plain as to require but little political direction. ~ George Washington,
1110:I might not be able to hold my drink or my man, but what I can hold, is a tune. Point me in the right direction and give me a bloody mic. ~ Lindsey Kelk,
1111:I would say to any artist: Don't be repressed in your work, dare to experiment, consider any urge, if in a new direction all the better. ~ Edward Weston,
1112:Life has taught us that love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Antoine de Saint Exup ry,
1113:Order or disorder depends on organisation and direction; courage or cowardice on circumstances; strength or weakness on tactical dispositions. ~ Sun Tzu,
1114:Satguru knows that there is no death to the disciple. Atma never dies. Even after death he continues to get direction on the path ~ Sri Sri Ravi Shankar,
1115:Sometimes it seemed to him that his life was delicate as a dandelion. One little puff from any direction, and it was blown to bits. ~ Katherine Paterson,
1116:Theres nothing worse than having everybody thinking alike, talking alike and having the same direction in mind. It gets stale that way. ~ Alex Van Halen,
1117:There's something very dreamlike about film, and I will always be very fascinated by that, and I'm always tempted to go in that direction. ~ David Chase,
1118:To know a thing you have to trust what you know, and all that you know, and as far as you know in whatever direction your knowing drags you. ~ Ken Kesey,
1119:We live in an age disturbed, confused, bewildered, afraid of its own forces, in search not merely of its road but even of its direction ~ Woodrow Wilson,
1120:With repentance comes a change of mind that effects a change of direction, since one’s orientation of life is directed in faith to God. ~ Darrell L Bock,
1121:You may want to change the place or the direction of the Moon or you may do something more practical: You accept the Moon as it is! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1122:Your Heavenly Father needs you. His work, under the direction of our Savior Jesus Christ, needs what you are uniquely prepared to give. ~ Robert D Hales,
1123:Before going to sleep at night, . . . take a few minutes to review the day. “Did I live in the direction of my ideals today?” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh #Buddhism,
1124:Fate has a way of stepping in and guiding you the direction you need to go even when you yourself had no intention of creating that path. ~ Fisher Amelie,
1125:I almost feel like I'm still in a molding stage so the feedback and response not only inspires me but guides me in a certain direction as well. ~ Kid Ink,
1126:If you are in a position to give direction to the masses, check your direction thousand times to be sure that it is the correct one! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1127:I have to work hard to be punctual, to not lose my temper, take direction and be told what to do - and most of all listen rather than talk. ~ Alfie Allen,
1128:I know how much the pain of this world weighs but I can still tip the scales in light's direction whenever I have your name on my tongue. ~ Andrea Gibson,
1129:I'm sorry, you see, I have no sense of direction. I've always had nightmares about getting lost. I believe I belong on another planet. ~ Charles Bukowski,
1130:In terms of quantity, we've probably already reached the limit of what's feasible. I think a change of direction may be what's needed. ~ Masahiro Sakurai,
1131:Once I stopped trying to always do everything my way, and once I asked for God's help, things have truly gone a different direction. ~ Sylvester Stallone,
1132:On course doesn't mean perfect. On course means that even when things don't go perfectly - you are still going in the right direction. ~ Charles Garfield,
1133:Seeking God first will always put us in the correct position and aim us in the right direction to move into the future God has for us. ~ Stormie Omartian,
1134:the chance circumstances of his life and the direction it had taken were dictated by his instincts, in his case inertia and detachment. ~ Fernando Pessoa,
1135:assisting in the capture of the 21st German army, which was trying to avoid the Russian troops advancing from the other direction. Ko and his ~ Tom Brokaw,
1136:Axl [Rose] is not the type of person to make something up. So I was sort of shocked that he went that direction. That caused me a lot of problems. ~ Slash,
1137:I don't know what to do. I only know that it's taken me years to understand that life was pushing me in a direction I didn't want to go in. ~ Paulo Coelho,
1138:If you have been given a word from God, you must continue in that direction until it comes to pass (even twenty five years like Abraham). ~ Henry Blackaby,
1139:If you walk and talk with God, you will never miss the direction to your divine future. Be bold and offer your heart to be led by God. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1140:I'm pretty committed to being a filmmaker because it incorporates everything I love: music, art direction, story, and you know - everything. ~ Adria Petty,
1141:It never failed to amaze Alex how, with the brush of a hand, the
track of someone’s life might veer in a completely different direction. ~ Jodi Picoult,
1142:life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell. ~ Maureen Johnson,
1143:Part of living your life is an awareness of the opportunities that can be missed and an awareness that time moves in one direction. ~ Jonathan Safran Foer,
1144:She doesn't give you time for questions as she locks up your arms in hers. And you follow till your sense of direction completely disappears. ~ Al Stewart,
1145:The Great Hall at the Met is one of the great portals of the world... From there, you can walk in any direction to almost any culture. ~ Thomas P Campbell,
1146:They walked on, without knowing in what direction. There was too much to be thought, and felt, and said, for attention to any other objects. ~ Jane Austen,
1147:To shift the direction of our planet, we must now be willing to experiment with the theory that within the speed and stress, we are good. ~ Sakyong Mipham,
1148:Welfare reforms and the whole “happy” exploitation movement are not “baby steps.” They are big steps–in a seriously backward direction. ~ Gary L Francione,
1149:We need to have faith in the people who are giving this movement direction to be smart enough to stay one step ahead of what's coming up next. ~ Joan Baez,
1150:all great men keep diaries. It gives a sense of direction, it documents where your days went, and it serves as a tool for self-improvement. ~ Preeti Shenoy,
1151:Back then, my whole world orbited around this man. Even now I feel my world tilt subtly in his direction. He has his own gravitational pull. ~ Sarina Bowen,
1152:Buhhdism is wisdom. As long as we have wisdom, we can put all things to the best use, we can turn everything in the direction of happiness. ~ Daisaku Ikeda,
1153:Colonel Maycomb’s misplaced self-confidence and slender sense of direction brought disaster to all who rode with him in the Creek Indian Wars. ~ Harper Lee,
1154:Enormous. Cold. It stretched on forever, in every direction. If I hadn't know otherwise, I would've thought that the whole world was ocean. ~ Helene Wecker,
1155:For a sailor to sail around the world, the thought is just, sometimes, too much. Thus, one simply goes from port to port in the same direction. ~ Hal Moore,
1156:High magic requires a great clarity of thought, you see, and women's talents do not lie in that direction. Their brains tend to overheat. ~ Terry Pratchett,
1157:If I have a chance to positively impact how the populace views DJs, then I'm going to try to do my part to nudge things in the right direction. ~ DJ Shadow,
1158:If there's a large move on significant news, either favorable or unfavorable, the stock will usually continue to move in that direction. ~ Richard Driehaus,
1159:It’s best to keep your head, sir. Battles need direction and officers are known for occasionally providing that sort of thing.” Stiger ~ Marc Alan Edelheit,
1160:Love isn’t a cage, petit,” she says. “It’s more like a post-balloon—sent off in a specific direction, but allowed to make its own path. ~ Dhonielle Clayton,
1161:Some people assume worry is the result of too much thinking. Actually, it’s the result of too little thinking in the right direction. ~ John F MacArthur Jr,
1162:Somewhere inside, we hear a voice. It leads us in the direction of the person we wish to become. But it is up to us whether or not to follow. ~ Pat Tillman,
1163:There is no discipline in the world so severe as the discipline of experience subjected to the tests of intelligent development and direction. ~ John Dewey,
1164:There’s no key to the universe, you just have to point your way in one direction, keep going, keep going, keep going, and see what happens. ~ Davy Rothbart,
1165:The ultimate test of any civilization is how we treat the most vulnerable... what we do to our children. Our world has lost its direction. ~ Ravi Zacharias,
1166:We were just two people headed in the same direction, and walking together was better than walking alone. Love should be more than that. ~ Bette Lee Crosby,
1167:Whereas purpose provides the juice and the direction, principles define the parameters of action and the criteria for excellence of behavior. ~ David Allen,
1168:At each moment may our attitude be such that the Divine’s Will determines our choice so that the Divine may give the direction to all our life. ~ The Mother,
1169:Education without direction is a one-sided social value. Direct action without education is a meaningless expression of pure energy. ~ Martin Luther King Jr,
1170:God does not guide those who want to run their own life. He only guides those who admit their need of His direction and rely on His wisdom. ~ Winkie Pratney,
1171:He’s not my dog. He came with the house.” A laugh rumbled from Hatch’s direction. “Now there’s a marketing tool. Buy a shanty, get a free hound. ~ Anonymous,
1172:I hate arrows. They try to tell me which direction to go. It's like "I ain't going that way, line with two thirds of a triangle on the end!" ~ Mitch Hedberg,
1173:It was my compass; a direction I could point myself in every day and say this is who I am now, this is what I do. The store is your compass. ~ Barbara Davis,
1174:Love thy neighbor as thyself. Unless he calls you names. Then do not love him, run in the opposite direction and throw a gerbil at his door. ~ Coco J Ginger,
1175:Our highest endeavour must be to develop individuals who are able out of their own initiative to impart purpose & direction to their lives. ~ Rudolf Steiner,
1176:Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm. ~ Manny Shinwell Baron Shinwell,
1177:Success cannot be pursued; success ensues. It flows as the unintended byproduct of efforts concentrated in the direction of a worthy cause. ~ Robin S Sharma,
1178:The truth I know for sure is that if something feels good and makes you happy on the inside, you're probably moving in the right direction. ~ Jacqui Holland,
1179:Walking home with the back half of the twelve-foot ladder I turned to look in the direction of Hugh’s loft. 'You will be mine,' I commanded. ~ David Sedaris,
1180:We all fall on hard times,” he said quietly, removing his fist from my chin. “It’s just lucky for you that you fell in the right direction. ~ Kristen Ashley,
1181:When we’d walk by mule deer, he’d watch them—one ear pricked toward them, one ear angled back in my direction—as I’d repeat, “Deer, no, stay, ~ Ted Kerasote,
1182:Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself. ~ Miguel Ruiz,
1183:Bellman nodded, smiling. “Even chance can bring justice?” “Exactly!” Grand Master said. “But it never hurts to nudge it in the right direction. ~ Dave Duncan,
1184:But we have gone so far in the direction of over treating terminal patients that we've failed to recognize when we're doing more harm than good. ~ Sheri Fink,
1185:Fixing markets isn't enough. We have to actively shape and create them and tilt the playing field in the direction of the growth we want. ~ Mariana Mazzucato,
1186:Have you ever heard of feng shui? (Randy) Yeah. It’s the ‘put the mirror on your door and sleep in the right direction’ bullshit. (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
1187:Here [in Wonder Boys] I had this group of characters where you didn't know which were the important ones or what direction they were heading. ~ Curtis Hanson,
1188:Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful. ~ Wayne Gretzky,
1189:I don’t believe in failure; I believe there are setbacks that are put into our path to teach us something and move us in a different direction. ~ Geri Jewell,
1190:I know what Germans are. They are a funny people. They are always choosing someone to lead them in a direction which they do not want to go. ~ Gertrude Stein,
1191:In some Australian Aborigine societies, time moves relative to the environment based on the direction in which the sun rises and sets. Give ~ Donald A Norman,
1192:I’ve since learned that when someone changes the conversational direction, it serves as a powerful marker of what is on his or her mind. ~ James W Pennebaker,
1193:Lou Reed is the most important definitive writer in modern rock. Not because of the stuff that he does, but the direction that he will take it. ~ David Bowie,
1194:There exists an exchange of trust between the ruler and the ruled. Abuse that from either direction and all mutual agreements are nullified. ~ Steven Erikson,
1195:Yet to complain of the world’s unfairness was the same as grumbling that the sun was hot or that the wind sometimes changed its direction. ~ Bernard Cornwell,
1196:As far as the work I did with Timbaland, it was his sound and I just kinda floated in his direction. I just rapped over his traditional beats. ~ Bubba Sparxxx,
1197:Excess generally causes reaction, and produces a change in the opposite direction, whether it be in the seasons, or in individuals, or in governments. ~ Plato,
1198:Infinity has got to become mine so that I can know which way to turn, so that I can know in what direction something like morning is breaking. ~ Ariana Reines,
1199:Kitty saw a dancing point of light in the direction he indicated. She hadn’t considered anyone might be watching through binoculars and flushed to ~ Gill Paul,
1200:Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society. ~ Robert McNamara,
1201:me get you a napkin,” a deep, worried voice said. Two patrons rushed over and shoved napkins in her direction. “Are you okay?” an older woman ~ Melissa Foster,
1202:Penny arranged everything exactly the way that made sense. TP was hung in the correct direction (‘over’ obviously; ‘under’ was for murderers). ~ Mary H K Choi,
1203:Pity was not love, Barbie reflected...but if you were a child, giving clothes to someone who was naked had to be a step in the right direction. ~ Stephen King,
1204:Repentance then is not the punctiliar decision of a moment but a radical heart transformation that reverses the whole direction of life. ~ Sinclair B Ferguson,
1205:Their thoughts did head in the same direction often enough, but there were times when Etta remained as mysterious as the stars in the sky. ~ Alexandra Bracken,
1206:The "Success-type" personality is composed of: S-ense of direction U—nderstanding C-ourage C-harity E-steem S-elf-Confidence S-elf-Acceptance. ~ Maxwell Maltz,
1207:This is because treating you too severely would just be a mistake in method, but treating you too laxly would be a mistake in political direction. ~ Liu Cixin,
1208:We don't always need to be sitting at the foot of the teacher, but from time to time we need someone who can overview us and give us direction. ~ Tenzin Palmo,
1209:You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler ~ David Allen,
1210:Because you gave me direction when I was lost. You showed me the way.” He looked up to meet Ty’s eyes. “You’re like my very own compass.” “Zane. ~ Abigail Roux,
1211:Buoyed by water, he can fly in any direction - up, down, sideways - by merely flipping his hand. Under water, man becomes an archangel. ~ Jacques Yves Cousteau,
1212:Failing forward is the ability to get back up after you've been knocked down, learn from your mistake, and move forward in a better direction. ~ John C Maxwell,
1213:Far better than a precise plan is a clear sense of direction and compelling beliefs. And that lies within you. The question is, how do you evoke it? ~ Dee Hock,
1214:Goals give us direction. They put a powerful force into play on a universal, conscious, and subconscious level. Goals give our life direction. ~ Melody Beattie,
1215:He does that a lot—go in a different direction, I mean. I sometimes think if it weren’t for Oberon, Siodhachan would be the loneliest man alive. ~ Kevin Hearne,
1216:I cast a glance in my new admirer's direction. "You may call me Your Highness," I said. "Or Empress Beauty."
He chuckled. I wasn't kidding. ~ Gena Showalter,
1217:It felt good. It felt right, like a step in the right direction when lately, all I’d been doing was stumbling further and further toward chaos. ~ Pippa DaCosta,
1218:Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one's conscience to get in the way. ~ Hugh Howey,
1219:Killing a man should be harder than waving a length of pipe in their direction. It should take long enough for one’s conscience to get in the way. ~ Hugh Howey,
1220:OMG! Wouldn’t it be great if we went on tour and opened for Lady Gaga or One Direction?! We could take this music thing and run with it. ~ Rachel Ren e Russell,
1221:The first move toward the determination of the direction of my art was the fortunate invention of plans for Blok’s wonder The Puppet Show. ~ Vsevolod Meyerhold,
1222:The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience. ~ Mingyur Rinpoche,
1223:We are the continuation of all our ancestors. Thanks to impermanence, we have a chance to transform our inheritance in a beautiful direction. ~ Thich Nhat Hanh,
1224:When we identify something our customer wants and communicate it simply, the story we are inviting them into is given definition and direction. ~ Donald Miller,
1225:You barely realize what just happened. It is called faith. You just turned in Jesus’ direction and you are listening. You want what he offers. ~ Edward T Welch,
1226:You have to gather your energy together...conserving it and insulating it from dissipation in every direction other than that of your purpose. ~ Walter Russell,
1227:Europeans should pay more attention. Iran has called for dialogue and is moving in the direction of reaching an agreement through peaceful means. ~ Ali Larijani,
1228:Have you ever heard of feng shui? (Randy)
Yeah. It’s the ‘put the mirror on your door and sleep in the right direction’ bullshit. (Steele) ~ Sherrilyn Kenyon,
1229:He felt like a compass needle. The needle knows nothing about magnetic north; it only knows it must point in a certain direction, like it or not. ~ Stephen King,
1230:If I weren't earning $3 million a year to dunk a basketball, most people on the street would run in the other direction if they saw me coming. ~ Charles Barkley,
1231:I'm just finding that when I'm sitting down and drawing the pages, it always takes me in a different direction than what I had in mind in my head. ~ David Finch,
1232:It's important for me to work with a strong director because I know I can go to some really deep places, I just need direction on how to get there. ~ Eva Mendes,
1233:Language changes and moves in a different direction evolving all the time. Where a lot of people see deterioration, I see expressive development ~ David Crystal,
1234:My palms started to sweat. I didn’t dare look in Dastien’s direction. But I could feel him. Pacing. Barely holding his wolf at bay. “You’re moving ~ Aileen Erin,
1235:Playing a character in a video game is different to other performances because your character can't lead the audience of players in one direction. ~ Andy Serkis,
1236:Since the earliest days of our youth, we have been conditioned to accept that the direction of the herd, and authority anywhere — is always right. ~ Suzy Kassem,
1237:The key [to sharing the gospel] is that you be inspired of God, that you ask Him for direction and then go and do as the Spirit prompts you. ~ M Russell Ballard,
1238:The single biggest advantage of being completely surrounded is that it gives you the opportunity to attack the enemy in any direction you choose. ~ James A Owen,
1239:Thinking of a series of dreams Where the time and the tempo fly And there's no exit in any direction 'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes ~ Bob Dylan,
1240:Tu déchires des nuages et tu les envoies en direction du vent. Et alors?
Il est des nuages très fertiles et cela requiert un sol approprié. ~ Mahmoud Darwish,
1241:We’re huge believers in doing things quickly, but there’s a difference between focused speed in a smart direction and being ridiculously hasty. ~ Alistair Croll,
1242:And you know, I'm so used to going 100 miles an hour in every direction and sleeping you know, two, three hours a night, and that's the way I live. ~ Criss Angel,
1243:As warriors, as humanitarians, they've taught me that without courage, compassion falters, and that without compassion, courage has no direction. ~ Eric Greitens,
1244:I believed that what mattered to God was the direction I was facing not how far away I was. Sin it seemed to me was the refusal to let God be God. ~ Sara Wheeler,
1245:I’m so ashamed of myself for wanting this. His brand of sex comes with a warning label. That should make me want to run in the opposite direction. ~ Belle Aurora,
1246:It's a different thing when you go into a studio and you record with the intent of going somewhere and you're marketing yourself for that direction. ~ Ben E King,
1247:It's better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you'll drift in that direction. ~ Warren Buffett,
1248:It’s better to hang out with people better than you. Pick out associates whose behavior is better than yours and you’ll drift in that direction. ~ Warren Buffett,
1249:Paradox: “We’re not going to hit breakthrough by Christmas, but if we keep pushing in the right direction, we will eventually hit breakthrough. ~ James C Collins,
1250:Pointed in the wrong direction, trapped outside their own history and unable to retrace their steps because their footprints had been swept away. ~ Arundhati Roy,
1251:Somewhere there was a fork and I went in a different direction from the one I always choose. Why am I desperate to go back and choose differently? ~ Ginger Scott,
1252:The direction and constancy of the will is what really matters, & intellect & feeling are only important in so far as they contribute to that. ~ Evelyn Underhill,
1253:There’s a good chance I’m headed in the same direction. Maybe I’m already going crazy and no one has the heart to tell me. I feel crazy enough. ~ Suzanne Collins,
1254:When I was a rookie, Cy Young used to hit me flies to sharpen my abilities to judge in advance the direction and distance of an outfield-hit ball. ~ Tris Speaker,
1255:Anything that's not positive, I don't have the energy to focus on it. Anything that's not going in the right direction, I don't have the time or the energy. ~ DMX,
1256:A total spiritual direction given to the whole life and the whole nature can alone lift humanity beyond itself. ~ Sri Aurobindo, The Life Divine, The Divine Life,
1257:Before anything else, determine your direction right, because if your direction is wrong, you may end up in deserts instead of green valleys! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1258:Drucker wrote, “Without productivity objectives, a business does not have direction. Without productivity measurements, it does not have control. ~ Alistair Croll,
1259:First of all, I don't think that America is truly prepared for a biological or a chemical attack. However, we are moving in the right direction. ~ Saxby Chambliss,
1260:He argued the course of direction during the full seventy miles of the drive. The fact that his map was eighteenth century did not fluster him ~ Daphne du Maurier,
1261:His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out. ~ Marcel Proust,
1262:I learned that you can constantly improve, and that you should not be shy about your views, and about the direction that you believe is right. ~ Christine Lagarde,
1263:I think it's good practice, if you're a writer, or anyone who's shaping narrative, to be flexible and open with the direction of the narrative. ~ David Mccandless,
1264:Our chief justices have probably had more profound and lasting influence on their times and on the direction of the nation than most presidents. ~ Richard M Nixon,
1265:The air currents must have steered me wrong, for I ended up far off course, and by "far off course" I mean "headed in the opposite direction entirely. ~ Lia Habel,
1266:There are times when a leader must move out ahead of the flock, go off in a new direction, confident that he is leading his people the right way. ~ Nelson Mandela,
1267:the universe expands forever in every direction for all of time, taking on the shape of a saddle, in which initially parallel lines diverge. ~ Neil deGrasse Tyson,
1268:Unbroken companionship helps us hear His instruction so then we can see His direction. We must not seek direction before obeying His instruction. ~ Lysa TerKeurst,
1269:Walk to the right direction, because someone might be following you! You have the right to go to the wrong direction if no one is behind you! ~ Mehmet Murat ildan,
1270:We hope relevant countries will work together in the same direction to build the South China Sea into a sea of peace, friendship and co-operation. ~ Ashton Carter,
1271:When you know what men are capable of you marvel neither at their sublimity nor their baseness. There are no limits in either direction apparently. ~ Henry Miller,
1272:Your feelings and emotions are your strongest indicator if your life is moving in a purposeful direction or not, so listen closely to how you feel ~ Rebecca Rosen,
1273:Being impeccable with your word is the correct use of your energy; it means to use your energy in the direction of truth and love for yourself. ~ Miguel Angel Ruiz,
1274:Big changes don't happen at the battlefield; they are made in closed rooms where very powerful people decide in which direction things should go. ~ Henning Mankell,
1275:Even if her eyes had been blinded and her legs shackled, she would not have lost her sense of direction. The path to freedom was carved in her heart. ~ Murray Pura,
1276:If people spend two hours thinking about the direction of their own lives and can relate to the stories they see on screen, to me that's a success. ~ Joe Berlinger,
1277:In all the poems I've written I've not really engaged in politics, and when I've found myself moving in that direction I've always stopped myself. ~ Simon Armitage,
1278:Lord Hamlin’s eyes darted in their direction, alighted on Rose, and held. His expression changed and his features softened as he looked at her. ~ Melanie Dickerson,
1279:The choice not taken ceases to exist once that decision is made. A person might as well regret the direction of the wind, or the shape of a cloud. ~ Stuart Neville,
1280:What the tech industry often forgets is that with age comes wisdom. Older workers are usually better at following direction, mentoring, and leading. ~ Vivek Wadhwa,
1281:When we talk about time management, it seems ridiculous to worry about speed before direction, about saving minutes when we may be wasting years. ~ Stephen R Covey,
1282:Yes," Vorkosigan agreed, "I could take over the universe with this army if I could ever get all their weapons pointed in the same direction. ~ Lois McMaster Bujold,
1283:You’ve got to think about the big things while you’re doing small things, so that all the small things go in the right direction. —Alvin Toffler This ~ David Allen,
1284:A good oration is good and a good understanding is better, but a good action in the right direction that gets the best results is the best! ~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah,
1285:For a small island, the place is remarkably diverse. Writers tend to see things from their own points of view, looking in one direction very much. ~ William Golding,
1286:If you work with people that are bringing you up constantly - really bright, really passionate people - you can't help but get pulled in that direction. ~ Bob Myers,
1287:I just want people to know that if they want to change the direction of the country, they can do it, but only if they're active, informed, and engaged. ~ Jim DeMint,
1288:It is much more important to cultivate the    quiet, inward space of a constant listening than to always be approaching God for specific direction. ~ Dallas Willard,
1289:Literary critics, like a herd of cows or a school of fish, always face in the same direction, obeying that love for unity that every critic requires. ~ Edward Abbey,
1290:making a decision isn't about knowing every potential consequence. It's about knowing what you want and chasing a path that takes you in that direction ~ Malinda Lo,
1291:Ofttimes we cannot change the entire direction of a route already set in motion. But we can do our small part to shift the path one degree at a time. ~ Jody Hedlund,
1292:Recognize that throughout this beautiful day,you have an incredible amount of opportunities to move your life into the direction you want it to go. ~ Steve Maraboli,
1293:She appears to have been knocked a bit in her life already. Up rather than down. If she ever nears me, however, the direction will be reversed. ~ John Kennedy Toole,
1294:Throughout life, we get clues that remind us of the direction we are supposed to be headed if you stay focused, then you learn your lessons. ~ Elisabeth Kubler Ross,
1295:We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction. ~ George Bernard Shaw,
1296:When desire, having rejected reason and overpowered judgment which leads to right, is set in the direction of the pleasure which beauty can inspire . . . ~ Socrates,
1297:You have riches and freedom here but I feel no sense of faith or direction. You have so many computers, why don't you use them in the search for love? ~ Lech Walesa,
1298:You know, Muhammad originally had his followers pray in the direction of Jerusalem, turning their backs on the pagan associations of the Kabah in Mecca. ~ Dan Eaton,
1299:A major institutional reform is the move away from merely planning, to transforming India. The setting up of NITI Aayog, is a step in this direction. ~ Narendra Modi,
1300:Dark matter has a gravitation effect on other objects. You can't see it, you can't feel it, but you can watch something being pulled in its direction. ~ Jodi Picoult,
1301:Galleries are becoming overwhelmed with psychedelic music/art. I like it; it's a good direction, a new blurring of the lines between what you do. ~ Brian Chippendale,
1302:Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail. ~ Neal Stephenson,
1303:Has anyone seen a raving bitch with nice hair?” Holly shouted at the bottom of the stairs. Everyone who heard her pointed in a different direction. ~ Nicole Williams,
1304:Here, then, is the desire, still wandering and uncertain of its object and still largely unable to see that object in the direction where it really lies. ~ C S Lewis,
1305:I have ideas of subjects and atmospheres that I love. I either want to go in a tougher, stronger direction or do the opposite: simple ballads. ~ Charlotte Gainsbourg,
1306:intersection of Broadway and Houston Street. Here, it was once sagely remarked, you could fire a shotgun in any direction without hitting an honest man; ~ Caleb Carr,
1307:Love does not consist in gazing at each other (one perfect sunrise gazing at another!) but in looking outward together in the same direction. ~ Anne Morrow Lindbergh,
1308:Sometimes, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell. ~ Maureen Johnson,
1309:The mind is the source of all experience, and by changing the direction of the mind, we can change the quality of everything we experience. ~ Yongey Mingyur Rinpoche,
1310:The more that I see the sexism and misogyny that's coming at me from every direction, the less I think my films have anything to do with sexploitation. ~ Anna Biller,
1311:To head north, a knight may use the North Star to guide him, but he will not arrive at the North Star. A knight's duty is to proceed in that direction. ~ Ethan Hawke,
1312:Travelling brings you further out to the world. Dreaming draws you further inside it. But maybe we can't travel in more than one direction at once. ~ Jostein Gaarder,
1313:We must lead in a different way... We must have an active president, who gives strong direction and works with the government for its implementation. ~ Lionel Jospin,
1314:What if everyone in the whole world suddenly decided to run away from his problems?"
"Well, at least we'd all be running in the same direction! ~ Charles M Schulz,
1315:You need someone to probe you in that direction. It won't just happen automatically."
I knew what he was saying. We all need teachers in our lives. ~ Mitch Albom,
1316:and shoved napkins in her direction. “Are you okay?” an older woman asked. Tears sprang from the corners of Danica’s closed eyes. Damn it. Her entire ~ Melissa Foster,
1317:As the tension eases, we must look in the direction of agriculture, industry and education as our final goals, and toward democracy under Mr Mubarak. ~ Naguib Mahfouz,
1318:away, stumbling over roots and among vines in the dark, no two plunging in the same direction. A furious blast roared through the trees, making everything ~ Anonymous,
1319:For all the cruelty and hardship of our world, we are not mere prisoners of fate. Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice. ~ Barack Obama,
1320:I had been friendly with people who were in the Communist party and all the rest of the Left forces, which were oriented in the direction of mass action. ~ Ella Baker,
1321:I'll get laughs in the places I don't want them and that makes me realize the direction I want to go in. I don't mean to get too deep into comedy here. ~ Baron Vaughn,
1322:I'm inspired by the poets, so I'm always going to give in that direction, rather than in any other. It's the making of me... and also the downfall of me. ~ Roy Harper,
1323:It was hard to know what direction to take when you suddenly found yourself in a future different from the one you'd expected to be in the day before. ~ Dexter Palmer,
1324:I was an atheist, I was open-minded, and I began to read in that direction, in the direction of Islam, and everything that I read about it appealed to me. ~ Malcolm X,
1325:Leadership is the influence of others in a productive, vision-driven direction and is done through the example, conviction, and character of the leader. ~ Chris Brady,
1326:Life has taught us that love does not consist in gazing at each other but in looking outward together in the same direction.   Antoine de Saint-Exupery ~ Arielle Ford,
1327:People don't really have a relationship with great writing or great production or great art direction or great direction. They just sort of admire it. ~ Steven Moffat,
1328:The Coherence Framework has four components: focusing direction, cultivating collaborative cultures, deepening learning, and securing accountability. ~ Michael Fullan,
1329:The learned and the studious of thought have no monopoly of wisdom. Their violence of direction in some degree disqualifies them to think truly. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1330:We need a new concept of reality and a new set of values for things to change in a positive direction. LSD could help to generate such a new concept. ~ Albert Hofmann,
1331:When one meddles with the direction of a revolution, the problem is not how to make it go but how to keep it under control. ~ Honore Gabriel Riqueti comte de Mirabeau,
1332:Your goal in life must be to always move higher and higher up the food chain, where you alone control the direction of your enterprise and depend on no one. ~ 50 Cent,
1333:After I am dead I would like people to say: 'Beuys understood the historical situation. He altered the course of events'. I hope in the right direction. ~ Joseph Beuys,
1334:Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction. ~ Ernst F Schumacher,
1335:Contentment is mostly a matter of talking yourself into believing that God will not strike you too hard for leaning in the direction of your hungers. ~ Charles Frazier,
1336:I always watch rushes. They give me a sense of whether I'm going in the right direction. You work hard and hopefully get encouragement from what you see. ~ Kevin Bacon,
1337:I'm a real people person and I'm very sensitive, and I've just noticed how other actors that I've worked with, as an actor, take direction from people. ~ Courteney Cox,
1338:I notice well that one stray step from the habitual path leads irresistibly into a new direction. Life moves forward, it never reverses its course. ~ Franz Grillparzer,
1339:It takes a habit to break a habit. You can pray every day for a generous heart, but until you start acting in that direction, nothing's going to change. ~ Andy Stanley,
1340:Life just changes. Like a stormy headwind, Camille thought. First blowing the sails in one direction and then, without warning at all, shifting course. ~ Angie Frazier,
1341:some things are not going to move, and we are the smaller ship that must adjust our course and steer in a different direction if we are going to make it. ~ Henry Cloud,
1342:Sometimes when our lives are out of control, the only thing that makes us feel secure is to swing in the opposite direction. To control every last detail. ~ Elle Casey,
1343:The difference between talent and genius is in the direction of the current: in genius, it is from within outward; in talent from without inward. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson,
1344:The most exquisite pleasure in the practice of medicine comes from nudging a layman in the direction of terror, then bringing him back to safety again. ~ Kurt Vonnegut,
1345:The universe is intentional. It is always moving in the direction of greater love, regardless whether or not we consciously align with that love. ~ Marianne Williamson,
1346:Time moves in one direction, memory another. We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. ~ William Gibson,
1347:To destroy guide-boards that point in the wrong direction . . . to drive the fiend of fear from the mind . . . is the task of the Freethinker. ~ Robert Green Ingersoll,
1348:What then is the way out? The way out is a very simple change in direction. You just need to see that the source and basis of your experience is within you. ~ Sadhguru,
1349:You can’t wait for life to fall into place, sweetie,” Bliss said, squeezing Susan’s head between her hands. “Don’t worry about the direction. Just move. ~ Chelsea Cain,
1350:I don't think I've ever had a plan or direction for myself. I've actually made decisions based more on what I didn't want to do than what I wanted to do. ~ Rick Moranis,
1351:If you’re trying to run progressively longer distances, all you need to do is run halfway in one direction. One way or another, you have to get back! ~ Chris Guillebeau,
1352:I`m running for president because I want to change the direction of this country, and it will require me for the time being to miss some votes in the U.S. ~ Marco Rubio,
1353:My first life, for all it lacked any real direction, had about it a kind of happiness, if ignorance is innocence, and loneliness is a separation of care. ~ Claire North,
1354:No one could understand the bond between me and my brother. I struggled to understand the forces that drove his soul in one direction and mine in another. ~ Barry White,
1355:Ride the horse in the direction that it’s going.” Instead of wishing for things to be different, choose to embrace the life in front of you. ~ Kimberly Williams Paisley,
1356:There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation. ~ Umberto Eco,
1357:There was no means by which I might know, and so I chose the center opening as being as likely to lead me in the right direction as another. Here ~ Edgar Rice Burroughs,
1358:When the Lord makes it clear you're to follow Him in this new direction, focus fully on Him and refuse to be distracted by comparisons with others. ~ Charles R Swindoll,
1359:All along, he'd been looking in the wrong direction, trying to make time stand still, to re-create the past, but everything in life taught the opposite. ~ Margot Livesey,
1360:André Marie Ampère demonstrated that two parallel wires were attracted towards one another if each had a current flowing through it in the same direction. ~ Manjit Kumar,
1361:A novel is not a summary of its plot but a collection of instances, of luminous specific details that take us in the direction of the unsaid and unseen. ~ Charles Baxter,
1362:Congress is headed in the wrong direction with this bill which removes any and all incentives from the food industry to improve their products for children. ~ Bob Filner,
1363:Direction determines destination. So the question you must ask yourself; 'Are all the disciplines that I'm currently engaged in taking me where I want to go?' ~ Jim Rohn,
1364:Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you've imagined. As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler. ~ Henry David Thoreau,
1365:If you're watching a parade, don't follow it. It never changes. If the parade is boring, run in the opposite direction. You will fast-forward the parade. ~ Mitch Hedberg,
1366:If you think you can grasp me, think again: my story flows in more than one direction, a delta springing from the river bed with its five fingers spread. ~ Adrienne Rich,
1367:In conclusion, the idea of direction on the part of the photographer has its greatest value when its processes are least discernible to the spectator. ~ Arthur Rothstein,
1368:I slunk off in direction of the cocktail table - the only place in the garden where a single man could linger without looking purposeless and alone. ~ F Scott Fitzgerald,
1369:It's a fault line where the flotsam and energy that washes up from the Pacific collides with all of urban America crashing in from the other direction. ~ Antoine Predock,
1370:My dream, maybe because of my family, of course, was to be a painter. I chose in one moment the direction of textiles; from textiles I went to fashion. ~ Roberto Cavalli,
1371:Policymakers think that if they get the abstractions right, that will drive behavior in the desired direction. But the world happens in real time. ~ Sendhil Mullainathan,
1372:Reason may be a small force, but it is constant, and works always in one direction, while the forces of unreason destroy one another in futile strife. ~ Bertrand Russell,
1373:Rey scarcely glanced in the other vessel’s direction. “That one’s garbage! We need something that’ll move, not just get off the ground—if we’re lucky! ~ Alan Dean Foster,
1374:Say Say Say
What you want
But don't play games
With my affection
Take take take
What you need
But don't leave me
With no direction ~ Michael Jackson,
1375:Sometimes life goes in a direction not of our choosing,” said the minister, softly. “That’s why we need to adapt. It’s never too late to change direction. ~ Louise Penny,
1376:The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines. ~ Felix Frankfurter,
1377:There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization... ~ Arthur Erickson,
1378:There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away. ~ Jack Nicholson,
1379:Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes ~ Bob Dylan,
1380:We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill , going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course ~ Arthur Golden,
1381:We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course. ~ Arthur Golden,
1382:We may not be trapped for the same reason, but we’re looking in the same direction, reaching beyond these walls together. Tell me what we’re up against. ~ Pepper Winters,
1383:Without work, without direction, his thoughts were like a hamster on a wheel, circling and dancing with no destination and no possibility of arrival. With ~ Val McDermid,
1384:You have to create something in a way that has direction, that it has vision, and then your partner will take it and figure out whatever their expertise is. ~ Will Smith,
1385:As the 'Batman' TV series was returning to ABC for its second season in 1967, the TV bosses decided to take Catwoman into another direction... lucky for me. ~ Eartha Kitt,
1386:Come with me," he said quietly and extended his hand.
"Nuh-uh." I shook my head, scooting in the opposite direction . "I don't think so, All American Hero. ~ J A Saare,
1387:Fear is not life-giving enough to sustain itself. We can move in the direction of fear only so long before it brings us to our knees, or to our end. ~ Marianne Williamson,
1388:It was like trying to have a conversation with a distracted and very soggy scone. Every time he pushed in one direction the earl either oozed or crumbled. ~ Gail Carriger,
1389:I've always had the feeling that nothing is impossible is one applies a certain amount of energy in the right direction. If you want to do it, you can do it. ~ Nellie Bly,
1390:Love
is a strange magic,
where death
can only make it stronger
while the softest kiss
in the wrong direction,
can steal it away forever ~ Atticus Poetry,
1391:Sometimes, Gin, life leaves you without directions, without guideposts or signs. When this happens, you just have to pick a direction and run like hell. ~ Maureen Johnson,
1392:The course of human history has always moved in the direction of greater freedom. And there’s a reason for that—because it’s in our nature to push for it, ~ Daniel H Pink,
1393:The real scientist is ready to bear privation and, if need be, starvation rather than let anyone dictate to him which direction his work must take. ~ Albert Szent Gyorgyi,
1394:There have been sore mistakes; and my life has been a blind and thankless one; and I want forgiveness and direction far too much, to be bitter with you. ~ Charles Dickens,
1395:There's no use in comparing one's feelings between one day and the next; you must allow a reasonable interval, for the direction of change to show itself. ~ Lewis Carroll,
1396:The wisest men follow their own direction
And listen to no prophet guiding them.
None but the fools believe in oracles,
Forsaking their own judgment. ~ Euripides,
1397:Today we can be sure we are heading into the right direction. We managed to put the round back on track, after a long hibernation. But we are not there yet. ~ Pascal Lamy,
1398:Whatever road I take, the guiding star is within me; the guiding star and the loadstone which point the way. They point in but one direction. They point to me. ~ Ayn Rand,
1399:Whenever the government of the United States shall break up, it will probably be in consequence of a false direction having been given to public opinion. ~ James F Cooper,
1400:You don't need to know what perfect looks like, just what better looks like. Better is your bearing. Better is enough to point you in the right direction. ~ Eric Greitens,
1401:You have to allow your mind to create and then if you want to censor something and bring it down or point it in a different direction, then you can do it. ~ Queen Latifah,
1402:Your power to choose your direction of your life allows you to reinvent yourself, to change your future, and to powerfully influence the rest of creation. ~ Stephen Covey,
1403:Being a movie star, and this applies to all of them, means being looked at from every possible direction. You are never left at peace, you're just fair game. ~ Greta Garbo,
1404:Be more intentional about the direction we allow our minds to go. Meaning, when you catch yourself thinking negatively, STOP. REDIRECT to something positive. ~ Eric Thomas,
1405:Dear soulmate,
I don't know who you are, where you live, or what you look like. But I pray for you every nite and I ask God to point you in my direction. ~ Frank Warren,
1406:Each breath we take, each step we make, each smile we realize, is a positive contribution to peace... a necessary step in the direction of peace for the world. ~ Nhat Hanh,
1407:eyes. “I’m so sorry. Let me get you a napkin,” a deep, worried voice said. Two patrons rushed over and shoved napkins in her direction. “Are you okay?” an ~ Melissa Foster,
1408:He kept expecting something to happen, some outside force to sweep in and change everything and take him in some new direction, give him a more normal life. ~ Hannah Tinti,
1409:He was just…half alive. He had no fucking clue how to get back to the land of the living, but he did know one step he could take now in the right direction. ~ Lauren Layne,
1410:I am not officially involved now in the direction of the Teen Challenge ministry, but I rejoice that God permits me to be the father of these ministries. ~ David Wilkerson,
1411:I believe that fate pushes in the direction we're supposed to go, but we have to chose how to go there. We get to choose the path that leads us to our fate. ~ Krista Lakes,
1412:If you can build a team full of high-quality people, and you bring aboard someone who may lack qualities, they're probably likely to go in the right direction. ~ Bob Myers,
1413:I have this recurring nightmare where I'm lost in a strange forest, and my only hope is your sense of direction. Enough to give a fellow the sweats, it is. ~ Gerald Morris,
1414:I really had spent my whole life playing soccer, and the fact that I was willing to give that up for theater, that told me I was moving in that direction. ~ Peter Jacobson,
1415:My wife really pushed me in that direction, to write my own songs and start singing, so I think having the whole family thing is such a huge thing. ~ Donavon Frankenreiter,
1416:Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves. ~ James Redfield,
1417:Sometimes, the right person comes along at the wrong time, and you have to just trust fate and hope it leads you in the right direction and it all evens out. ~ Carian Cole,
1418:There is in the human race some dark spirit of recalcitrance, always pulling us in the direction contrary to that in which we are reasonably expected to go. ~ Max Beerbohm,
1419:There's nothing more political than sex. The church has had its hand on our crotch for more than 2,000 years, and the government is moving in that direction. ~ Larry Flynt,
1420:There’s something about the sight of a gorgeous guy in an open convertible heading in your direction that makes all bad feelings evaporate into thin air. ~ Daria Snadowsky,
1421:trust in God’s provision for the direction of their lives. “This means believing the Lord will stand strong when you cannot . . . that He will hold you up, ~ Beverly Lewis,
1422:We're always exploring new ideas in the writers room, and those kinds of ideas snowball from season to season and drive the show in a different direction. ~ Robert Kirkman,
1423:What gets our attention determines our direction and, ultimately, our destination. Or if you would prefer the short version: attention determines direction. ~ Andy Stanley,
1424:What struck me was how assured he seemed of his own direction in life. He was oddly free from doubt, though at first glance it was hard to understand why. ~ Michelle Obama,
1425:While Republicans were working to end slavery and secure civil rights, the new nation of southern Democrats was determined to head in an opposite direction. ~ David Barton,
1426:You see, when things are tough I have discovered that a very very simple (but effective) thing to do is just keep moving in some sort of positive direction. ~ Gary Halbert,
1427:After all, you have grown accustomed to having an authority in your life to define reality, and without that external direction you feel confused and lost. ~ James Redfield,
1428:But the purpose and nature are never clearly revealed. Human behaviour is a series of lunges, of which, it is sometimes sensed, the direction is inevitable. ~ Patrick White,
1429:For discipline is the channel in which our acts run strong and deep; where there is no direction, the deeds of men run shallow and wander and are wasted. ~ Ursula K Le Guin,
1430:If direction is a look, montage is a heartbeat. To foresee is the characteristic of both; but what one seeks to foresee in space, the other seeks in time. ~ Jean Luc Godard,
1431:I had a job as an illustrator, and I wanted to change the direction of my work. I moved to the country, and immediately I started to paint fairies and trolls. ~ Brian Froud,
1432:It's fate, but fate just gives us a nudge in the right direction onthe fast lane, I guarantee she doesn't have her hands in your pockets while she's doing it ~ Shelly Crane,
1433:It was really a focus on how to in some ways keep moving in this direction towards something that allowed me to express myself in a way that sports didn't. ~ Mahershala Ali,
1434:Like Twitter, which faced much skepticism early on, Jelly has plenty of folks raising an eyebrow in its direction while trying to figure out what it’s good for. ~ Anonymous,
1435:That’s the most sexist idea I’ve ever heard,” Nellie said harshly. “I’m female, so I have to be clueless. He’s male, so he’s got a great sense of direction. ~ Gordon Korman,
1436:The actual “interests” of the scholar, therefore, are generally in quite another direction—in the family, perhaps, or in money-making, or in politics; ~ Friedrich Nietzsche,
1437:The most common reasons teams or individuals underperform are: Lack of clarity and focus Lack of ability Lack of confidence Lack of direction Lack of motivation ~ Anonymous,
1438:The undulent landscape looks serene in every direction. Honey-colored farmhouses, gently placed in hollows, rise like thick loaves of bread set out to cool. ~ Frances Mayes,
1439:Walk out of any doorway feel your way, feel your way like the day before Maybe you'll find direction around some corner where it's been waiting to meet you. ~ Robert Hunter,
1440:We all make mistakes. Every wrong job I take is a mistake, but it's also a step in the right direction. If nothing else, it's a step away from the wrong one. ~ Adam Silvera,
1441:We don't fight about music. We don't fight about artistic direction. The things like that we could fight about, we really don't. We are pretty lucky for that. ~ Alan Cooper,
1442:We're afraid for you, they said. It's like you're on this thin line between being alive and being dead, like one small shift could send you either direction ~ Akwaeke Emezi,
1443:What sort of politics you people do? Such is the way of all parliaments: one can sense even beforehand the trend of voting, in which direction it will turn. ~ Sri Aurobindo,
1444:when someone looks in a certain direction as they process a question or as they answer it, is that they are thinking—it is not per se indicative of deception. ~ Joe Navarro,
1445:With this much loss, you begin to think it’s in the blood, as if there’s a dark magnet pulling the body in that direction—pulling, maybe, from the beginning. ~ Paula McLain,
1446:A beam of luminous hydrogen canal rays has, owing to its velocity, exactly the same direction as that of the electric field in which it may be made to move. ~ Johannes Stark,
1447:A prediction about the direction of the stock market tells you nothing about where stocks are headed, but a whole lot about the person doing the predicting. ~ Warren Buffett,
1448:...for Christians typical dating can often be a swerver - an approach to relationships that wants to go in a different direction than the one God has for us. ~ Joshua Harris,
1449:If you don't like the way you are headed, change direction. Go inside. Search your place of inner wisdom. See what this calls on you to do. Then do it. ~ Neale Donald Walsch,
1450:I like comedies, and my brain sort of spins in that direction. So I'm really happy to say there were several smartass comments that come from me [on Star Wars]. ~ Alan Tudyk,
1451:I must cite an intrinsic condition of the universe. We set forth in any direction which seems convenient; each leads to the same place: the end of the universe. ~ Jack Vance,
1452:In any value stream, there is always a direction of flow, and there is always one and only constraint; any improvement not made at that constraint is an illusion. ~ Gene Kim,
1453:It is by a thorough knowledge of the whole subject that [people] are enabled to judge correctly of the past and to give a proper direction to the future. ~ John Quincy Adams,
1454:Maybe it was his imagination, but a few of the dolls seemed like they had turned in his direction. Staring with painted eyes. Suddenly, sleep seemed impossible. ~ Will Wight,
1455:So, too, how to tell your story has a great deal to do with how you feel about the circumstances in your life and which direction your story is going to go in ~ Laura Fraser,
1456:The alternation of motion is ever proportional to the motive force impressed; and is made in the direction of the right line in which that force is impressed. ~ Isaac Newton,
1457:The danger to America is not in the direction of the failure to maintain its economic position, but in the direction of the failure to maintain its ideals. ~ Calvin Coolidge,
1458:There was Isola in a mad hat and a purple shawl pinned with a glittering brooch. She was smiling fixedly in the wrong direction and I loved her instantly. ~ Mary Ann Shaffer,
1459:as bad as those other two.” Gabe dug into his pocket. “Jeez…” She scowled at him, rocking her large frame in his direction. “Careful, Mr. Gabriel. My Lord ~ Roxanne St Claire,
1460:Beauty is something we can affirm and intend to have more of. What happens then is our perceptual ability, no matter where we are, expands in that direction. ~ James Redfield,
1461:Christ in you is the hope of glory..."
"Your life moves in the direction of your most dominant thought"
"Love is never unsure"
"Truth demands a response ~ Various,
1462:Generally, when a leader struggles, the root cause behind the problem is that the leader has leaned too far in one direction and steered off course. Awareness ~ Jocko Willink,
1463:Hannah was about to burst with excitement, which would have been disgusting because she would have sprayed blood, guts and glitter in every direction. ~ Laurie Halse Anderson,
1464:Here's the dilemma, Itself the solution. I have always been at the same time woman enough to be moved to tears and man enough to drive my car in any direction. ~ Hettie Jones,
1465:I don't exactly know what I'm going to write about today so what I am going to do is just keep putting words down on paper until I start to get some direction. ~ Gary Halbert,
1466:If you feel lost and confused, if you lose your sense of direction, if you cannot tell the difference between friend and foe, you have only yourself to blame. ~ Robert Greene,
1467:In fact, the reality of life is such that you never do get to the top. The climb is the goal. The top of the mountain is only the direction, not the destination ~ David Aaron,
1468:Librarians are on the front lines of an invisible struggle over our information diet and, for better or worse, the scales are not tipping in their direction. ~ Peter Morville,
1469:Pigpen saunters up beside me. He's in his midtwenties and a wall of solid muscle. Most men wet themselves when he looks in their direction. "Eli wants him in. ~ Katie McGarry,
1470:Religions become corrupted when leaders are assigned to explain God's will to the people instead of showing them how to find this direction within themselves ~ James Redfield,
1471:... Societies aren t made of sticks and stones, but of men whose individual characters, by turning the scale one way or another, determine the direction of the whole. ~ Plato,
1472:The world is so complex and overstimulating that you can easily lose your sense of direction. Doing countless unnecessary activities will dissipate your energy. ~ Sarah Young,
1473:Which direction now? Every damned tree and plant looked the same. Green, green, and more leafy green. It was like being trapped in a huge spinach salad. ~ Mimi Jean Pamfiloff,
1474:You had a majority of Americans saying that [Donald Trump] would take the country in the right direction or I think he would make real change, real change. ~ Kellyanne Conway,
1475:All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good. ~ Alexander Pope,
1476:Commitment” means that when you do (inevitably) stumble or get off track, you pick yourself up, find your bearings, and carry on in the direction you want to go. ~ Russ Harris,
1477:Happy Tuesday! Get your light and life back! Steer your energy in the right direction. Let go of any anger you have for others and prepare to be the best you! ~ Tracey Edmonds,
1478:If you think you can grasp me, think again:
my story flows in more than one direction
a delta springing from the riverbed
with its five fingers spread ~ Adrienne Rich,
1479:If you were a man, you'd know in your bones what direction you were going. It's an automatic thing, this knowing where you are, bred deep in a man's bones. ~ Catherine Coulter,
1480:In cities it is useless to look at the stars or to describe them, worship them, or seek direction from them. When lost, one should follow the tracks of the camels. ~ Rawi Hage,
1481:I've never slept with anyone who could help me at all. No one. I wish I had. If anything, everyone I've had sex with has been a real step in the wrong direction. ~ Amy Schumer,
1482:My favorite job is the next one. Its such a gratifying experience getting to creatively keep trying something new and push things in a different direction. ~ Roger Craig Smith,
1483:... perhaps the clock hands had become so tired of going in the same direction year after year that they had suddenly begun to go the opposite way instead... ~ Jostein Gaarder,
1484:She said that time was like the Mississippi River. It only flows in one direction. She meant you could never go back. But of course we had. She'd taken me back. ~ Richard Peck,
1485:Sometimes, when you look back, you can point to a time when your world shifts and heads in another direction. In lace reading this is called the “still point. ~ Brunonia Barry,
1486:The pictures I contemplate painting would constitute a halfway state and attempt to point out the direction of the future - without arriving there completely ~ Jackson Pollock,
1487:There was a sound like a garbage bag of pudding dropped off a tall building onto a sidewalk. Robert had erupted, chunks slapping off the walls in every direction. ~ David Wong,
1488:They were involved in a firefight and felt they were surrounded. Whether they escaped from that and were fleeing and went in the wrong direction, we don't know. ~ Hugh Shelton,
1489:When you attain the control of the internal direction of your attention, you will no longer stand in shallow water but will launch out into the deep of life. ~ Neville Goddard,
1490:Without a purpose, life is motion without meaning, activity without direction and events without reason. Without a purpose life is trivial, petty, and pointless. ~ Rick Warren,
1491:With the instincts of convicts who discover the gates of their prison open, the individual oranges rolled in every direction to maximize their chances of escape. ~ Amor Towles,
1492:10 percent of any population is cruel, no matter what, and 10 percent is merciful, no matter what, and the remaining 80 percent can be moved in either direction. ~ Susan Sontag,
1493:Beyonce gave us direction, and she had like four or five studios going at one time, but then she only sings what she likes. "Back Up" was one of those records. ~ Rodney Jerkins,
1494:But it is a very difficult thing to change the future.
The slightest turn of phrase…action and the human soul.
The future changes direction based on those things. ~ CLAMP,
1495:I ask myself whether Russia is moving in the direction of democracy. I don't believe it is! Bit by bit, Russia is slipping back into an authoritarian empire. ~ Vladimir Sorokin,
1496:I don’t want to be doomed to mediocrity in my feeling for Christ. I want to feel. I want to love. Take me, dear Lord, and set me in the direction I am to go ~ Flannery O Connor,
1497:If you manage yourself, you control the flow of your time to the right direction. It takes self-discipline to be at the center of control for your own time. ~ Israelmore Ayivor,
1498:In those countries with centuries of a craft tradition behind their building methods, techniques are tightly coordinated under the direction of the architect. ~ Arthur Erickson,
1499:My career did start in the Spanish language industry, and that's probably because my father is my manager. He pushed my career in the direction he knew best. ~ Jencarlos Canela,
1500:Only you can decide who you are and what you want to accomplish in this world. Only you can conquer your demons and move forward in the direction you wish to go. ~ Sable Hunter,

IN CHAPTERS [300/981]



  423 Integral Yoga
   69 Yoga
   64 Christianity
   57 Fiction
   56 Occultism
   47 Philosophy
   45 Poetry
   34 Psychology
   24 Science
   14 Integral Theory
   8 Hinduism
   7 Theosophy
   6 Cybernetics
   5 Mythology
   5 Islam
   5 Baha i Faith
   4 Sufism
   4 Buddhism
   3 Mysticism
   3 Education
   1 Zen
   1 Kabbalah
   1 Alchemy


  251 Sri Aurobindo
  151 The Mother
  125 Satprem
  116 Nolini Kanta Gupta
   57 H P Lovecraft
   38 Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
   29 Swami Krishnananda
   29 Sri Ramakrishna
   29 Carl Jung
   24 Aleister Crowley
   16 Plotinus
   14 James George Frazer
   12 Swami Vivekananda
   11 Walt Whitman
   10 Rudolf Steiner
   9 Saint Augustine of Hippo
   8 Friedrich Nietzsche
   7 Plato
   6 Norbert Wiener
   6 Nirodbaran
   6 Lucretius
   6 Jordan Peterson
   6 Baha u llah
   6 Aldous Huxley
   6 A B Purani
   5 Sri Ramana Maharshi
   5 Muhammad
   5 Joseph Campbell
   5 Henry David Thoreau
   4 Jalaluddin Rumi
   3 Vyasa
   3 Thubten Chodron
   3 Saint Teresa of Avila
   3 Saint John of Climacus
   3 R Buckminster Fuller
   3 Lewis Carroll
   3 George Van Vrekhem
   3 Bokar Rinpoche
   2 Rainer Maria Rilke
   2 Rabindranath Tagore
   2 Patanjali
   2 Muso Soseki
   2 Ken Wilber
   2 Jorge Luis Borges
   2 Genpo Roshi
   2 Franz Bardon
   2 Edgar Allan Poe
   2 Anonymous
   2 Alice Bailey
   2 Al-Ghazali


   68 Record of Yoga
   57 Lovecraft - Poems
   51 The Synthesis Of Yoga
   30 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03
   29 The Study and Practice of Yoga
   28 The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna
   22 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01
   21 The Life Divine
   18 Essays In Philosophy And Yoga
   18 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04
   16 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 07
   15 The Future of Man
   15 Letters On Yoga IV
   14 The Golden Bough
   14 Magick Without Tears
   13 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02
   12 The Phenomenon of Man
   12 On the Way to Supermanhood
   11 Whitman - Poems
   11 The Practice of Psycho therapy
   11 The Human Cycle
   11 Letters On Yoga II
   11 Agenda Vol 01
   10 Liber ABA
   10 Agenda Vol 11
   10 Agenda Vol 10
   10 Agenda Vol 06
   9 Questions And Answers 1953
   9 Let Me Explain
   9 Agenda Vol 12
   9 Agenda Vol 02
   8 Questions And Answers 1957-1958
   8 Essays On The Gita
   8 City of God
   8 Agenda Vol 08
   8 Agenda Vol 03
   7 Sri Aurobindo or the Adventure of Consciousness
   7 Mysterium Coniunctionis
   7 Agenda Vol 13
   7 Agenda Vol 09
   7 Agenda Vol 04
   6 Vedic and Philological Studies
   6 Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo
   6 The Secret Doctrine
   6 The Perennial Philosophy
   6 Talks
   6 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 02
   6 Of The Nature Of Things
   6 Maps of Meaning
   6 Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo
   6 Cybernetics
   6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 08
   6 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 05
   6 Aion
   6 Agenda Vol 07
   6 A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah
   5 Walden
   5 Theosophy
   5 The Hero with a Thousand Faces
   5 The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
   5 Raja-Yoga
   5 Quran
   5 Questions And Answers 1950-1951
   5 On Thoughts And Aphorisms
   5 Bhakti-Yoga
   4 Twilight of the Idols
   4 Thus Spoke Zarathustra
   4 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 03
   4 Knowledge of the Higher Worlds
   4 Agenda Vol 05
   3 Words Of Long Ago
   3 Vishnu Purana
   3 The Mother With Letters On The Mother
   3 The Ladder of Divine Ascent
   3 The Book of Certitude
   3 The Blue Cliff Records
   3 Tara - The Feminine Divine
   3 Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking
   3 Questions And Answers 1956
   3 Questions And Answers 1955
   3 Questions And Answers 1954
   3 Preparing for the Miraculous
   3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 04
   3 Plotinus - Complete Works Vol 01
   3 Hymns to the Mystic Fire
   3 How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator
   3 Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 06
   3 Alice in Wonderland
   2 Words Of The Mother II
   2 The Way of Perfection
   2 The Problems of Philosophy
   2 The Practice of Magical Evocation
   2 The Lotus Sutra
   2 The Divine Comedy
   2 The Alchemy of Happiness
   2 The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
   2 Tagore - Poems
   2 Some Answers From The Mother
   2 Sex Ecology Spirituality
   2 Savitri
   2 Rumi - Poems
   2 Rilke - Poems
   2 Questions And Answers 1929-1931
   2 Prayers And Meditations
   2 Patanjali Yoga Sutras
   2 On Education
   2 Letters On Yoga I
   2 Letters On Poetry And Art
   2 Isha Upanishad
   2 Hymn of the Universe
   2 Essays Divine And Human
   2 A Treatise on Cosmic Fire
   2 Advanced Dungeons and Dragons 2E


00.03 - Upanishadic Symbolism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Some Western and Westernised scholars have tried to show that the phenomenon described here is an exclusively natural phenomenon, actually visible in the polar region where the sun never sets for six months and moves in a circle whose plane is parallel to the plane of the horizon on the summer solstice and is gradually inclined as the sun regresses towards the equinox (on which day just half the solar disc is visible above the horizon). The sun may be said there to move in the direction East-South-West-North and again East. Indeed the Upanishad mentions the positions of the sun in that order and gives a character to each successive station. The Ray from the East is red, symbolising the Rik, the Southern Ray is white, symbolising the Yajur, the Western Ray is black symbolising the Atharva. The natural phenomenon, however, might have been or might not have been before the mind's eye of the Rishi, but the symbolism, the esotericism of it is clear enough in the way the Rishi speaks of it. Also, apart from the first four movements (which it is already sufficiently difficult to identify completely with what is visible), the fifth movement, as a separate descending movement from above appears to be a foreign element in the context. And although, with regard to the sixth movement or status, the sun is visible as such exactly from the point of the North Pole for a while, the ring of the Rishi's utterance is unmistakably spiritual, it cannot but refer to a fact of inner consciousness that is at least what the physical fact conveys to the Rishi and what he seeks to convey and express primarily.
   Now this is what is sought to be conveyed and expressed. The five movements of the sun here also are nothing but the five smas and they refer to the cycle of the Cosmic or Universal Brahman. The sixth status where all movements cease, where there is no rising and setting, no ebb and flow, no waxing and waning, where there is the immutable, the ever-same unity, is very evidently the Transcendental Brahman. It is That to which the Vedic Rishi refers when he prays for a constant and fixed vision of the eternal Sunjyok ca sryam drie.
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   The three boons asked for by Nachiketas from Yama, Lord of Death, and granted to him have been interpreted in different ways. Here is one more attempt in the direction.
   Nachiketas is the young aspiring human being still in the Ignorancenaciketa, meaning one without consciousness or knowledge. The three boons he asks for are in reference to the three fundamental modes of being and consciousness that are at the very basis, forming, as it were, the ground-plan of the integral reality. They are (i) the individual, (ii) the universal or cosmic and (iii) the transcendental.

000 - Humans in Universe, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
  stretching away to infinity in all lateral directions. Yet the total land area of this flat
  world constitutes less than 17 percent of the subsequently-discovered-to-be-
  --
  in all circumferential directions to become a finite system: a closed sphere. The
  monarchs and merchants realized that, within that closed system, whoever

0.00 - INTRODUCTION, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
   At the age of six or seven Gadadhar had his first experience of spiritual ecstasy. One day in June or July, when he was walking along a narrow path between paddy-fields, eating the puffed rice that he carried in a basket, he looked up at the sky and saw a beautiful, dark thunder-cloud. As it spread, rapidly enveloping the whole sky, a flight of snow-white cranes passed in front of it. The beauty of the contrast overwhelmed the boy. He fell to the ground, unconscious, and the puffed rice went in all directions. Some villagers found him and carried him home in their arms. Gadadhar said later that in that state he had experienced an indescribable joy.
   Gadadhar was seven years old when his father died. This incident profoundly affected him. For the first time the boy realized that life on earth was impermanent. Unobserved by others, he began to slip into the mango orchard or into one of the cremation grounds, and he spent hours absorbed in his own thoughts. He also became more helpful to his mother in the discharge of her household duties. He gave more attention to reading and hearing the religious stories recorded in the Puranas. And he became interested in the wandering monks and pious pilgrims who would stop at Kamarpukur on their way to Puri. These holy men, the custodians of India's spiritual heritage and the living witnesses of the ideal of renunciation of the world and all-absorbing love of God, entertained the little boy with stories from the Hindu epics, stories of saints and prophets, and also stories of their own adventures. He, on his part, fetched their water and fuel and
  --
   Toward the end of 1866 he began to practise the disciplines of Islam. Under the direction of his Mussalman guru he abandoned himself to his new sadhana. He dressed as a Mussalman and repeated the name of Allah. His prayers took the form of the Islamic devotions. He forgot the Hindu gods and goddesses — even Kali — and gave up visiting the temples. He took up his residence outside the temple precincts. After three days he saw the vision of a radiant figure, perhaps Mohammed. This figure gently approached him and finally lost himself in Sri Ramakrishna. Thus he realized the Mussalman God. Thence he passed into communion with Brahman. The mighty river of Islam also led him back to the Ocean of the Absolute.
   --- CHRISTIANITY
  --
   In April 1885 the Master's throat became inflamed. Prolonged conversation or absorption in samadhi, making the blood flow into the throat, would aggravate the pain. Yet when the annual Vaishnava festival was celebrated at Panihati, Sri Ramakrishna attended it against the doctor's advice. With a group of disciples he spent himself in music, dance, and ecstasy. The illness took a turn for the worse and was diagnosed as "clergyman's sore throat". The patient was cautioned against conversation and ecstasies. Though he followed the physician's directions regarding medicine and diet, he could neither control his trances nor withhold from seekers the solace of his advice. Sometimes, like a sulky child, he would complain to the Mother about the crowds, who gave him no rest day or night. He was overheard to say to Her; "Why do You bring here all these worthless people, who are like milk diluted with five times its own quantity of water? My eyes are almost destroyed with blowing the fire to dry up the water. My health is gone. It is beyond my strength. Do it Yourself, if You want it done. This (pointing to his own body) is but a perforated drum, and if you go on beating it day in and day out, how long will it last?"
   But his large heart never turned anyone away. He said, "Let me be condemned to be born over and over again, even in the form of a dog, if I can be of help to a single soul." And he bore the pain, singing cheerfully, "Let the body be preoccupied with illness, but, O mind, dwell for ever in God's Bliss!"

0.00 - The Wellspring of Reality, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
  The principle of leverage is a scientific generalization. It makes no difference of what material either the fulcrum or the lever consists-wood, steel, or reinforced concrete. Nor do the special-case sizes of the lever and fulcrum, or of the load pried at one end, or the work applied at the lever's other end in any way alter either the principle or the mathematical regularity of the ratios of physical work advantage that are provided at progressive fulcrum-to-load increments of distance outward from the fulcrum in the opposite direction along the lever's arm at which theoperating effort is applied.
  Mind is the weightless and uniquely human faculty that surveys the ever larger inventory of special-case experiences stored in the brain bank and, seeking to identify their intercomplementary significance, from time to time discovers one of the rare scientifically generalizable principles running consistently through all the relevant experience set. The thoughts that discover these principles are weightless and tentative and may also be eternal. They suggest eternity but do not prove it, even though there have been no experiences thus far that imply exceptions to their persistence. It seems also to follow that the more experiences we have, the more chances there are that the mind may discover, on the one hand, additional generalized principles or, on the other hand, exceptions that disqualify one or another of the already catalogued principles that, having heretofore held "true" without contradiction for a long time, had been tentatively conceded to be demonstrating eternal persistence of behavior. Mind's relentless reviewing of the comprehensive brain bank's storage of all our special-case experiences tends both to progressive enlargement and definitive refinement of the catalogue of generalized principles that interaccommodatively govern all transactions of Universe.
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  The supposed location of the threshold between animate and inanimate was methodically narrowed down by experimental science until it was confined specifically within the domain of virology. Virologists have been too busy, for instance, with their DNA-RNA genetic code isolatings, to find time to see the synergetic significance to society of the fact that they have found that no physical threshold does in fact exist between animate and inanimate. The possibility of its existence vanished because the supposedly unique physical qualities of both animate and inanimate have persisted right across yesterday's supposed threshold in both directions to permeate one another's-previously perceived to be exclusive- domains. Subsequently, what was animate has become foggier and foggier, and what is inanimate clearer and clearer. All organisms consist physically and in entirety of inherently inanimate atoms. The inanimate alone is not only omnipresent but is alone experimentally demonstrable. Belated news of the elimination of this threshold must be interpreted to mean that whatever life may be, it has not been isolated and thereby identified as residual in the biological cell, as had been supposed by the false assumption that there was a separate physical phenomenoncalled animate within which life existed. No life per se has been isolated. The threshold between animate and inanimate has vanished. Those chemists who are preoccupied in synthesizing the particular atomically structured molecules identified as the prime constituents of humanly employed organisms will, even if they are chemically successful, be as remote from creating life as are automobile manufacturers from creating the human drivers of their automobiles. Only the physical connections and development complexes of distinctly "nonlife" atoms into molecules, into cells, into animals, has been and will be discovered. The genetic coding of the design controls of organic systems offers no more explanation of life than did the specifications of the designs of the telephone system's apparatus and operation explain the nature of the life that communicates weightlessly to life over the only physically ponderable telephone system. Whatever else life may be, we know it is weightless. At the moment of death, no weight is lost. All the chemicals, including the chemist's life ingredients, are present, but life has vanished. The physical is inherently entropic, giving off energy in ever more disorderly ways. The metaphysical is antientropic, methodically marshalling energy. Life is antientropic.
  It is spontaneously inquisitive. It sorts out and endeavors to understand.
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  Science's self-assumed responsibility has been self-limited to disclosure to society only of the separate, supposedly physical (because separately weighable) atomic component isolations data. Synergetic integrity would require the scientists to announce that in reality what had been identified heretofore as physical is entirely metaphysical-because synergetically weightless. Metaphysical has been science's designation for all weightless phenomena such as thought. But science has made no experimental finding of any phenomena that can be described as a solid, or as continuous, or as a straight surface plane, or as a straight line, or as infinite anything. We are now synergetically forced to conclude that all phenomena are metaphysical; wherefore, as many have long suspected-like it or not-life is but a dream.Science has found no up or down directions of Universe, yet scientists are personally so ill-coordinated that they all still personally and sensorially see "solids" going up or down-as, for instance, they see the Sun "going down." Sensorially disconnected from their theoretically evolved information, scientists discern no need on their part to suggest any educational reforms to correct the misconceiving that science has tolerated for half a millennium.
  Society depends upon its scientists for just such educational reform guidance.

0.02 - Letters to a Sadhak, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  and was horrified! He was rubbing violently and in any direction
  with one or the other hand, while he was looking at anything

0.04 - The Systems of Yoga, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   purifies the mind and the will that we become easily conscious of the great universal Energy as the true doer of all our actions and the Lord of that Energy as their ruler and director with the individual as only a mask, an excuse, an instrument or, more positively, a conscious centre of action and phenomenal relation. The choice and direction of the act is more and more consciously left to this supreme Will and this universal Energy.
  To That our works as well as the results of our works are finally abandoned. The object is the release of the soul from its bondage to appearances and to the reaction of phenomenal activities.

01.02 - Natures Own Yoga, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   For, till now Mind has been the last term of the evolutionary consciousness Mind as developed in man is the highest instrument built up and organised by Nature through which the self-conscious being can express itself. That is why the Buddha said: Mind is the first of all principles, Mind is the highest of all principles: indeed Mind is the constituent of all principlesmana puvvangam dhamm1. The consciousness beyond mind has not yet been made a patent and dynamic element in the life upon earth; it has been glimpsed or entered into in varying degrees and modes by saints and seers; it has cast its derivative illuminations in the creative activities of poets and artists, in the finer and nobler urges of heroes and great men of action. But the utmost that has been achieved, the summit reached in that direction, as exampled in spiritual disciplines, involves a withdrawal from the evolutionary cycle, a merging and an absorption into the static status that is altogether beyond it, that lies, as it were, at the other extreme the Spirit in itself, Atman, Brahman, Sachchidananda, Nirvana, the One without a second, the Zero without a first.
   The first contact that one has with this static supra-reality is through the higher ranges of the mind: a direct and closer communion is established through a plane which is just above the mind the Overmind, as Sri Aurobindo calls it. The Overmind dissolves or transcends the ego-consciousness which limits the being to its individualised formation bounded by an outward and narrow frame or sheath of mind, life and body; it reveals the universal Self and Spirit, the cosmic godhead and its myriad forces throwing up myriad forms; the world-existence there appears as a play of ever-shifting veils upon the face of one ineffable reality, as a mysterious cycle of perpetual creation and destructionit is the overwhelming vision given by Sri Krishna to Arjuna in the Gita. At the same time, the initial and most intense experience which this cosmic consciousness brings is the extreme relativity, contingency and transitoriness of the whole flux, and a necessity seems logically and psychologically imperative to escape into the abiding substratum, the ineffable Absoluteness.

01.04 - The Poetry in the Making, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Not only so, the future development of the poetic consciousness seems inevitably to lead to such a consummation in which the creative and the critical faculties will not be separate but form part of one and indivisible movement. Historically, human consciousness has grown from unconsciousness to consciousness and from consciousness to self-consciousness; man's creative and artistic genius too has moved pari passu in the same direction. The earliest and primitive poets were mostly unconscious, that is to say, they wrote or said things as they came to them spontaneously, without effort, without reflection, they do not seem to know the whence and wherefore and whither of it all, they know only that the wind bloweth as it listeth. That was when man had not yet eaten the fruit of knowledge, was still in the innocence of childhood. But as he grew up and progressed, he became more and more conscious, capable of exerting and exercising a deliberate will and initiating a purposive action, not only in the external practical field but also in the psychological domain. If the earlier group is called "primitives", the later one, that of conscious artists, usually goes by the name of "classicists." Modern creators have gone one step farther in the direction of self-consciousness, a return upon oneself, an inlook of full awareness and a free and alert activity of the critical faculties. An unconscious artist in the sense of the "primitives" is almost an impossible phenomenon in the modern world. All are scientists: an artist cannot but be consciously critical, deliberate, purposive in what he creates and how he creates. Evidently, this has cost something of the old-world spontaneity and supremacy of utterance; but it cannot be helped, we cannot comm and the tide to roll back, Canute-like. The feature has to be accepted and a remedy and new orientation discovered.
   The modern critical self-consciousness in the artist originated with the Romantics. The very essence of Romanticism is curiosity the scientist's pleasure in analysing, observing, experimenting, changing the conditions of our reactions, mental or sentimental or even nervous and physical by way of discovery of new and unforeseen or unexpected modes of "psychoses" or psychological states. Goethe, Wordsworth, Stendhal represented a mentality and initiated a movement which led logically to the age of Hardy, Housman and Bridges and in the end to that of Lawrence and Joyce, Ezra Pound and Eliot and Auden. On the Continent we can consider Flaubert as the last of the classicists married to the very quintessence of Romanticism. A hard, self-regarding, self-critical mentality, a cold scalpel-like gaze that penetrates and upturns the reverse side of things is intimately associated with the poetic genius of Mallarm and constitutes almost the whole of Valry's. The impassioned lines of a very modern poet like Aragon are also characterised by a consummate virtuosity in chiselled artistry, conscious and deliberate and willed at every step and turn.
   The consciously purposive activity of the poetic consciousness in fact, of all artistic consciousness has shown itself with a clear and unambiguous emphasis in two directions. First of all with regard to the subject-matter: the old-world poets took things as they were, as they were obvious to the eye, things of human nature and things of physical Nature, and without questioning dealt with them in the beauty of their normal form and function. The modern mentality has turned away from the normal and the obvious: it does not accept and admit the "given" as the final and definitive norm of things. It wishes to discover and establish other norms, it strives to bring about changes in the nature and condition of things, envisage the shape of things to come, work for a brave new world. The poet of today, in spite of all his effort to remain a pure poet, in spite of Housman's advocacy of nonsense and not-sense being the essence of true Art, is almost invariably at heart an incorrigible prophet. In revolt against the old and established order of truths and customs, against all that is normally considered as beautiful,ideals and emotions and activities of man or aspects and scenes and movements of Natureagainst God or spiritual life, the modern poet turns deliberately to the ugly and the macabre, the meaningless, the insignificant and the triflingtins and teas, bone and dust and dustbin, hammer and sicklehe is still a prophet, a violent one, an iconoclast, but one who has his own icon, a terribly jealous being, that seeks to pull down the past, erase it, to break and batter and knead the elements in order to fashion out of them something conforming to his heart's desire. There is also the class who have the vision and found the truth and its solace, who are prophets, angelic and divine, messengers and harbingers of a new beauty that is to dawn upon earth. And yet there are others in whom the two strains mingle or approach in a strange way. All this means that the artist is far from being a mere receiver, a mechanical executor, a passive unconscious instrument, but that he is supremely' conscious and master of his faculties and implements. This fact is doubly reinforced when we find how much he is preoccupied with the technical aspect of his craft. The richness and variety of patterns that can be given to the poetic form know no bounds today. A few major rhythms were sufficient for the ancients to give full expression to their poetic inflatus. For they cared more for some major virtues, the basic and fundamental qualitiessuch as truth, sublimity, nobility, forcefulness, purity, simplicity, clarity, straightforwardness; they were more preoccupied with what they had to say and they wanted, no doubt, to say it beautifully and powerfully; but the modus operandi was not such a passion or obsession with them, it had not attained that almost absolute value for itself which modern craftsmanship gives it. As technology in practical life has become a thing of overwhelming importance to man today, become, in the Shakespearean phrase, his "be-all and end-all", even so the same spirit has invaded and pervaded his aesthetics too. The subtleties, variations and refinements, the revolutions, reversals and inventions which the modern poet has ushered and takes delight in, for their own sake, I repeat, for their intrinsic interest, not for the sake of the subject which they have to embody and clothe, have never been dream by Aristotle, the supreme legislator among the ancients, nor by Horace, the almost incomparable craftsman among the ancients in the domain of poetry. Man has become, to be sure, a self-conscious creator to the pith of his bone.
   Such a stage in human evolution, the advent of Homo Faber, has been a necessity; it has to serve a purpose and it has done admirably its work. Only we have to put it in its proper place. The salvation of an extremely self-conscious age lies in an exceeding and not in a further enhancement or an exclusive concentration of the self-consciousness, nor, of course, in a falling back into the original unconsciousness. It is this shift in the poise of consciousness that has been presaged and prepared by the conscious, the scientific artists of today. Their task is to forge an instrument for a type of poetic or artistic creation completely new, unfamiliar, almost revolutionary which the older mould would find it impossible to render adequately. The yearning of the human consciousness was not to rest satisfied with the familiar and the ordinary, the pressure was for the discovery of other strands, secret stores of truth and reality and beauty. The first discovery was that of the great Unconscious, the dark and mysterious and all-powerful subconscient. Many of our poets and artists have been influenced by this power, some even sought to enter into that region and become its denizens. But artistic inspiration is an emanation of Light; whatever may be the field of its play, it can have its origin only in the higher spheres, if it is to be truly beautiful and not merely curious and scientific.

01.08 - Walter Hilton: The Scale of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Close the senses. Turn within. And then go forward, that is to say, more and more inward. In that direction lies your itinerary, the journey of your consciousness. The sense-ridden secular man, who goes by his physical eye, has marked in his own way the steps of his forward march and progress. His knowledge and his power grew as he proceeded in his survey from larger masses of physical objects to their component molecules and from molecules to their component atoms and from atoms once more into electrons and protons or energy-points pure and simple, or otherwise as, in another direction, he extended his gaze from earth to the solar system, from the solar system to other starry systems, to far-off galaxies and I from galaxies to spaces beyond. The record of this double-track march to infinityas perceived or conceived by the physical sensesis marvellous, no doubt. The mystic offers the spectacle of a still more marvellous march to another kind of infinity.
   Here is the Augustinian mantra taken as the motto of The Scale of Perfection: We ascend the ascending grades in our heart and we sing the song of ascension1. The journey's end is heavenly Jerusalem, the House of the Lord. The steps of this inner ascension are easily visible, not surely to the outer eye of the sense-burdened man, but to the "ghostly seeing" of the aspirant which is hazy in the beginning but slowly clears as he advances. The first step is the withdrawal from the outer senses and looking and seeing within. "Turn home again in thyself, and hold thee within and beg no more without." The immediate result is a darkness and a restless darknessit is a painful night. The outer objects of attraction and interest have been discarded, but the inner attachments and passions surge there still. If, however, one continues and persists, refuses to be drawn out, the turmoil settles down and the darkness begins to thin and wear away. One must not lose heart, one must have patience and perseverance. So when the outward world is no more-there and its call also no longer awakes any echo in us, then comes the stage of "restful darkness" or "light-some darkness". But it is still the dark Night of the soul. The outer light is gone and the inner light is not yet visible: the night, the desert, the great Nought, stretches between these two lights. But the true seeker goes through and comes out of the tunnel. And there is happiness at the end. "The seeking is travaillous, but the finding is blissful." When one steps out of the Night, enters into the deepest layer of the being, one stands face to face to one's soul, the very image of God, the perfect God-man, the Christ within. That is the third degree of our inner ascension, the entry into the deepest, purest and happiest statein which one becomes what he truly is; one finds the Christ there and dwells in love and union with him. But there is still a further step to take, and that is real ascension. For till now it has been a going within, from the outward to the inner and the inmost; now one has to go upward, transcend. Within the body, in life, however deep you may go, even if you find your soul and your union with Jesus whose tabernacle is your soul, still there is bound to remain a shadow of the sinful prison-house; the perfect bliss and purity without any earthly taint, the completeness and the crowning of the purgation and transfiguration can come only when you go beyond, leaving altogether the earthly form and worldly vesture and soar into Heaven itself and be in the company of the Trinity. "Into myself, and after... above myself by overpassing only into Him." At the same time it is pointed out, this mediaeval mystic has the common sense to see that the going in and going above of which one speaks must not be understood in a literal way, it is a figure of speech. The movement of the mystic is psychological"ghostly", it is saidnot physical or carnal.

01.09 - William Blake: The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Such is to be the ideal, the perfect, the spiritual man. Have we here the progenitor of the Nietzschean Superman? Both smell almost the same sulphurous atmosphere. But that also seems to lie in the direction to which the whole world is galloping in its evolutionary course. Humanity in its agelong travail has passed through the agony, one might say, of two extreme and opposite experiences, which are epitomised in the classic phrasing of Sri Aurobindo as: (1) the Denial of the Materialist and (2) the Refusal of the Ascetic.1 Neither, however, the Spirit alone nor the body alone is man's reality; neither only the earth here nor only the heaven there embodies man's destiny. Both have to be claimed, both have to belivedubhayameva samrt, as the old sage, Yajnavalkya, declared.
   The earliest dream of humanity is also the last fulfilment. The Vedic Rishis sang of the marriage of heaven and earthHeaven is my father and this Earth my mother. And Blake and Nietzsche are fiery apostles of that dream and ideal in an age crippled with doubt, falsehood, smallness, crookedness, impotence, colossal ignorance.

0.10 - Letters to a Young Captain, #Some Answers From The Mother, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  have lost my sense of direction. Where exactly am I?
  I would like to have an indication, a way to get out,

01.11 - The Basis of Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   If it is said that this is an ideal for the few only, not for the mass, our answer to that is the answer of the GitaYad yad acharati sreshthah. Let the few then practise and achieve the ideal: the mass will have to follow as far as it is possible and necessary. It is the very character of the evolutionary system of Nature, as expressed in the principle of symbiosis, that any considerable change in one place (in one species) is accompanied by a corresponding change in the same direction in other contiguous places (in other associated species) in order that the poise and balance of the system may be maintained.
   It is precisely strong nuclei that are needed (even, perhaps, one strong nucleus is sufficient) where the single and integrated spiritual consciousness is an accomplished and established fact: that acts inevitably as a solvent drawing in and assimilating or transforming and re-creating as much, of the surroundings as its own degree and nature of achievement inevitably demand.

0 1956-05-02, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   What I call a descent takes place in the individual consciousness. In the same way, we speak of ascent (there is no ascent really, there is no high or low, no direction: its all a manner of speaking)we speak of ascent when we feel ourselves rising up towards something, and we call it a descent when, after having caught this thing, we bring it down into ourselves.
   But when the doors are opened and the flood pours in, it can no longer be called a descent: it is a Force that spreads everywhere. Understood? Ah!

0 1956-10-28, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   I am facing the same difficulties as before my departure to Hyderabad, and I have made the same mistakes. The main reason for this state is that, on the one hand, words and ideas seem to have lost all power over me, and on the other, the vital elan which led me thus far is dead. So upon what shall my faith rest? I still have some faith, of course, but it has become totally ABSTRACT. The vital does not cooperate, so I feel all withered, suspended in a void, nothing seems to give me direction anymore. There is no rebelliousness in me, but rather a void.
   In this state, I am ceaselessly thinking of my forest in Guiana or of my travels through Africa and the ardor that filled me with life in those days. I seem to need to have my goal before me and to walk towards it. Outer difficulties also seem to help me resolve my inner problems: there is a kind of need in me for the elements the sea, the forest, the desert for a milieu with which I can wrestle and through which I can grow. Here, I seem to lack a dynamic point of leverage. Here, in the everyday routine, everything seems to be falling apart in me. Should I not return to my forest in Guiana?

0 1956-12-12, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   For years I have dreamed of going to Chinese Turkestan. Should I head in that direction? Or towards Africa?
   I dont see a thing, nothing. Oh Mother, I turn towards you in this void that is stifling me. Hear my prayer. Tell me what I must do. Give me a sign. Mother, you are my sole recourse, for who else would show me the path to be taken, who else but you would love me? Or is my fate to go off into the night?

0 1958-07-06, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   When I was young, I was as poor as a turkey, as poor as could be! As an artist, I sometimes had to go out in society (as artists are forced to do). I had lacquered boots that were cracked and I painted them so it wouldnt show! This is to tell you the state I was inpoor as a turkey. So one day, in a shop window, I saw a very pretty petticoat much in fashion then, with lace, ribbons, etc. (It was the fashion in those days to have long skirts which trailed on the floor, and I didnt have a petticoat which could go with such things I didnt care, it didnt matter to me in the least, but since Nature had told me I would always have everything I needed, I wanted to make an experiment.) So I said, Well, I would very much like to have a petticoat to go with those skirts. I got five of them! They came from every direction!
   And it is always like that. I never ask for anything, but if by chance I say to myself, Hmm, wouldnt it be nice to have that, mountains of them pour in! So last year, I made an experiment, I told Nature, Listen, my little one, you say that you will collaborate, you told me I would never lack anything. Well then, to put it on a level of feelings, it would really be fun, it would give me joy (in the style of Krishnas joy), to have A LOT of money to do everything I feel like doing. Its not that I want to increase things for myself, no; you give me more than I need. But to have some fun, to be able to give freely, to do things freely, to spend freely I am asking you to give me a crore of rupees1 for my birthday!

0 1958-11-04 - Myths are True and Gods exist - mental formation and occult faculties - exteriorization - work in dreams, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   There are subtle bodies and subtle worlds that correspond to these bodies; it is what the psychological method calls states of consciousness, but these states of consciousness really correspond to worlds. The occult process consists in becoming aware of these various inner states of being, or subtle bodies, and of mastering them sufficiently to be able to make one come out of the other, successively. For there is a whole hierarchy of increasing subtletiesor decreasing, depending upon the direction and the occult process consists in making a more subtle body come out from a denser body, and so forth, right to the most ethereal regions. You go out through successive exteriorizations into more and more subtle bodies or worlds. Each time it is rather like passing into another dimension. In fact, the fourth dimension of the physicists is only the scientific transcription of an occult knowledge.
   To give another comparison, it could be said that the physical body is at the centerit is the most material and the most condensed, as well as the smallestand the more subtle inner bodies increasingly overlap the limits of this central physical body; they pass through it and extend further and further out, like water evaporating from a porous vase which creates a kind of steam all around it. And the more subtle it is, the more its extension tends to fuse with that of the universe: you finally become universal. It is an entirely concrete process that makes the invisible worlds an objective experience and even allows you to act in those worlds.

0 1960-06-07, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   And just imagine! The other day, in the middle of the night, I suddenly found myself inside you. Ah, so thats what hes like, I said. I woke up in the middle of the night with that. And right away I said to myself, But (laughing) but why is he like that!? And this lasted perhaps one or two minutes, maybe more. I was I felt like kicking out in every direction in a kind of rage. And the next second, I thought, But why all this? My goodness, its so easy; the remedy is simply to do this and immediately (I did what I always do, you seeits how I am constantly), quite simply, I melted into the Supreme. Enough of all thisand the very next second, everything was all right.
   So then I thought, This surely must have had some effect (on the disciple). What has happened? I am I was literally in peace.
   And thats really how it was Hmm, maybe thats what its like for an infant shut up in his mothers womb, so he kicks about in every direction and for a long time. Hes had enough of being shut in.
   It was a kind of rage against something that shuts you in.

0 1960-10-11, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Im just now finishing the Yoga of Self-Perfection When we see what human life is and, even in the best of cases, what it represents in the way of imbecility, stupidity, narrowness, meanness (not to mention ignorance because that is too flagrant) and even those who believe themselves to have generous heart, for example, or liberal ideas, a desire to do good! Each time the consciousness orients itself in one direction to attain some result, everything that was in existence (not just ones personal existence, but this sort of collectivity of existences that each being represents), everything that is contrary to this effort immediately presents itself in its crudest light.
   It happened this morning while I was walking back and forth in my room. I had finished my japa I had to stop and hold my head in my hands to keep from bursting into tears. No, it is too dreadful, I said to myself; and to think that we want Perfection!

0 1960-10-30, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   You know, even now, all this (Mother touches her body, her hands) feels so vibrant and alive that its difficult to sense its limits as if it extends beyond the body in all directions. It no longer has any limits.
   But its still not luminous in the dark. What is normally luminous in the dark is something else I had that when I was working with Theon (after returning to France, we had group meditationsthough he didnt call it meditation, he called it repose, and we used to do this in a darkened room), and there was it was like phosphorescence, exactly the color of phosphorescent light, like certain fish in the water at night. It would come out [of the body], spread forth, move about. But that is the vital, it originates in the vital. It is a force from above, but what manifests is vital. Whereas now it is absolutely, clearly the golden supramental light in an extraordinary pulsation, vibrant in intensity But probably it still lacks a what Theon used to call density, an agent that enables it to be seen in the dark and then it would be visibly gold, not phosphorescent.

0 1960-11-15, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   While it was all coming up, I thought, How is this possible? For during those years of my life (Im now outside things; I do them but Im entirely outside, so they dont involve mewhether its like this or like that makes no difference to me; Im only doing my work, thats all), I was already conscious, but nevertheless I was IN what I was doing to a certain extent; I was this web of social life (but thank God it wasnt here in India, for had it been here I could not have withstood it! I think that even as a child I would have smashed everything, because here its even worse than over there). You see, there its its a bit less constricting, a bit looser, you can slip through the mesh from time to time to brea the some air. But here, according to what Ive learned from people and what Sri Aurobindo told me, its absolutely unbearable (its the same in Japan, absolutely unbearable). In other words, you cant help but smash everything. Over there, you sometimes get a breath of air, but still its quite relative. And this morning I wondered (you see, for years I lived in that way for years and years) just as I was wondering, How was I ABLE to live that and not kick out in every direction?, just as I was looking at it, I saw up above, above this (it is worse than horrible, it is a kind of Oh, not despair, for there isnt even any sense of feeling there is NOTHING! It is dull, dull, dull gray, gray, gray, clenched tight, a closed web that lets through neither air nor life nor lightthere is nothing) and just then I saw a splendor of such sweet light above itso sweet, so full of true love, true compassion something so warm, so warm the relief, the solace of an eternity of sweetness, light, beauty, in an eternity of patience which feels neither the past nor the inanity and imbecility of thingsit was so wonderful! That was entirely the feeling it gave, and I said to myself, THAT is what made you live, without THAT it would not have been possible. Oh, it would not have been possible I would not have lived even three days! THAT is there, ALWAYS there, awaiting its hour, if we would only let it in.
   (silence)

0 1960-12-17, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   Its beautiful, isnt it? Its all together, but its innumerable. Its ONE thing going in all directions. And what a color! The tree is glorious.
   Nature is a marvelous inventoreverything She does is beautiful. I dont believe that man has succeeded in producing anything so perfect. Later, its true, some new species were developed by him, but nevertheless Nature still remains the origin.

0 1960-12-20, #Agenda Vol 01, #unset, #Zen
   And now, all these different attitudes which individuals, groups and categories of men hold are coming from every direction (while Im walking upstairs) to assert their own points of view as the true thing. And I see that for myself, Im being forced to deal with a whole mass of things, most of which are quite futile from an ordinary point of viewnot to mention the things of which these moral or religious types disapprove. Quite interestingly, all kinds of mental formations come like arrows while Im walking for my japa upstairs (Mother makes a gesture of little arrows in the air coming into her mental atmosphere from every direction); and yet, Im entirely in what I could call the joy and happiness of my japa, full of the energy of walking (the purpose of walking is to give a material energy to the experience, in all the bodys cells). Yet in spite of this, one thing after another comes, like this, like that (Mother draws little arrows in the air): what I must do, what I must answer to this person, what I must say to that one, what has to be done All kinds of things, most of which might be considered most futile! And I see that all this is SITUATED in a totality, and this totality I could say that its nothing but the body of the Divine. I FEEL it, actually, I feel it as if I were touching it everywhere (Mother touches her arms, her hands, her body). And all these things neither veil nor destroy nor divert this feeling of being entirely this a movement, an action in the body of the Divine. And its increasing from day to day, for it seems that He is plunging me more and more into entirely material things with the will that THERE TOO it must be done that all these things must be consciously full of Him; they are full of Him, in actual fact, but it must become conscious, with the perception that it is all the very substance of His being which is moving in everything
   It was quite beautiful on the balcony this morning

0 1961-01-12, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You have this experience when for some reason or other, depending on the case, you come into contact with the universal consciousness not in its limitless essence but on any level of Matter. There is an atomic consciousness, a purely material consciousness and an even more generally prevailing psychological consciousness. When, through interiorization or a sort of withdrawal from the ego you enter into contact with that zone of consciousness we can call psychological terrestrial or human collective (there is a difference: human collective is restricted, while terrestrial includes many animal and even plant vibrations; but in the present case, since the moral notion of guilt, sin and evil belongs exclusively to human consciousness, let us simply say human collective psychological consciousness); when you contact that through identification, you naturally feel or see or know yourself capable of any human movement whatsoever. To some extent, this constitutes a Truth-Consciousness, or at such times the egoistical sense of what does or doesnt belong to you, of what you can or cannot do, disappears; you realize that the fundamental construction of human consciousness makes any human being capable of doing anything. And since you are in a truth-consciousness, you are aware at the same time that to feel judgmental or disgusted or revolted would be an absurdity, for EVERYTHING is potentially there inside you. And should you happen to be penetrated by certain currents of force (which we usually cant follow: we see them come and go but we are generally unaware of their origin and direction), if any one of these currents penetrates you, it can make you do anything.
   If one always remained in this state of consciousness, keeping alive the flame of Agni, the flame of purification and progress, then after some time, not only could one prevent these movements from taking an active form in oneself and becoming expressed physically, but one could act upon the very nature of the movement and transform it. Needless to say, however, that unless one has attained a very high degree of realization it is virtually impossible to keep this state of consciousness for long. Almost immediately one falls back into the egoistic consciousness of the separate self, and all the difficulties return: disgust, the revolt against certain things and the horror they create in us, and so on.

0 1961-01-24, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Then, with the same precision, the same calm, the same deliberate, clear and concentrated consciousness (absolutely NOTHING MENTAL), I began to come back down. And as I was descending, I realized that all the difficulty I had been fighting the other day and which had created this illness was absolutely ended, ANNULLEDmastered. Actually, it was not even mastery but the non-existence of anything to be mastered: Simply THE vibration from top to bottom; yet there was neither high nor low nor any direction.
   And it went on like that. After this, Slowly, Still WITHOUT MOVING, everything went back into each of the different centers of the being. (Ah, let me say parenthetically that it wasnt AT ALL the ascent of a force like the ascent of the Kundalini! It had absolutely nothing to do with the Kundalini movement and the centers, it wasnt that at all.) But while re-descending, it was as though WITHOUT LEAVING THIS STATE, without leaving this state which remained conscious ALL the time, this supreme Consciousness began to reactivate the different centers: first here (Mother points to the center above the head and then touches the crown of the head, the forehead, throat, chest, etc.) then there, there, there. At each there was a pause while this new realization organized everything. It organized and made the necessary decisions, sometimes down to the most minute details: what had to be done in this case or said in that case; and all of that TOGETHER, at once, not one by one but seen entirely as a whole. It kept on descending I noted many things, it was extremely interestingdown and down, farther and farther, right to the depths. Everything went on at the same time,7 simultaneously, and at the same time this supreme Consciousness was organizing everything separately.8

0 1961-03-04, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   So they kept pulling in opposing directions. Eventually they tried to set something up (which still didnt hold together), and finally they wrote me a little more clearly. (There is one very nice man involved, Y. He isnt particularly intellectual but has a lot of common sense and a very faithful hearta very good man.) Y asked me some direct questions, without beating around the bush, and I replied directly: World Union is an entirely superficial thing, without any depth, based on the fact that Sri Aurobindo said the masses must be helped to follow the progress of the elitewell, let them go ahead! If they enjoy it, let them go right ahead! I didnt say it exactly like that (I was a bit more polite!), but that was the gist of it.
   Now it has all fallen flat. They are carrying on with their little activities, but its absolutely unimportant. They publish a small journal, and V, who writes for them, is far from stupid. She is rather intelligent and I have some control over her, so I will try to stop her from writing nonsense.

0 1961-05-19, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It is evidently proof of an evolution in this direction, within this whole cluster of cells, but.
   Finally, we want something else.

0 1961-06-27, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I have had an oft repeated experience of reliving the past1 (its a phenomenon of consciousness, possible because everything is preserved and continues to exist somewhere), with a kind of willwhich would be the sign of a powerto change it. I dont know, but at the moment of reliving it, instead of reliving the past just as it had been preserved, a power to make it different was introduced. I am not speaking of the power to change the consequences of the past (that is obvious and functions all the time)it wasnt that; it was the power to change the circumstances themselves (circumstances not quite material but of the subtle physical, with a predominantly psychological content). And since the will was there, from the standpoint of consciousness it actually happened that is, instead of circumstances developing in one direction, they developed in another. So it must correspond to something real, otherwise I would not have had the experience. It wasnt a product of the imagination; it wasnt something one thinks of and would really like to be differentit wasnt that; it was a phenomenon of consciousness: my consciousness was reliving certain circumstances (which are still quite living and obviously continue to exist within their own domain), but reliving them with the power and the knowledge acquired between that past moment and the present, and with a power to change the past moment. A new power entered the scene and turned the circumstance being relived in a new direction. I have had this experience many times and it has always surprised meits not a phenomenon of mental imagination, which is something else entirely.
   It opens the door to everything.

0 1961-07-15, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Some months ago, when this body had once again become a battlefield and was confronting all the obstacles, when it was suspended, asking itself whether it wasnt wondering intellectually, but asking for a kind of perception, wanting to touch something: it wondered which direction it was taking, which way things were going to tilt. And suddenly, in all the cells, there was this feeling (and I know where it came from): If we are dissolved out of this amalgam, if this assemblage is dissolved and can no longer go on, then we shall all go straight, straight as an arrow and it was like a marvelous flamestraight to rejoin Sri Aurobindo in his supramental world, which is right here at our door. And there was such joy! Such enthusiasm, such joy flooded all the cells! They didnt care at all whether or not they would be dissociated. Oh, they felt, so what!
   This was truly a decisive stage in the work of illuminating the body.

0 1961-07-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Standing there between two iridescent pillars is a very tall figure; his face, framed in short blond curls, is that of a very young man; his eyes are sea-green; he is clad in a pale blue tunic, and like wings upon his shoulders are great, snow-white fins. Beholding me, he steps aside against a pillar to let me pass. Scarcely have I crossed the threshold when an exquisite melody strikes my ears. The waters are all iridescent here, the ground aglow with glossy pearls; the portico and the vault, hung gracefully with stalactites, are opaline; delectable perfumes hover everywhere; galleries, niches and alcoves open out on all sides; but directly ahead of me I perceive a great light and towards it I turn my steps. There are great rays of gold, silver, sapphire, emerald and ruby, radiating outward in all directions, born from a center too distant for me to discern; to this center I feel drawn by a powerful attraction.
   Now I see that these rays emanate from a recumbent oval of white light encircled by a superb rainbow, and I sense that the one whom the light hides from my view is plunged into a profound repose. For long I remain at the outer edge of the rainbow, trying to pierce through the light and see the one who is sleeping encircled by such splendor. Unable to discern anything, I enter the rainbow, and thence into the white and shining oval. Here I see a marvelous being: stretched on what seems to be a mass of white eiderdown, his supple body, of incomparable beauty, is garbed in a long, white robe. His head rests on his folded arm, but of that I can see only his long hair, the hue of ripened wheat, flowing over his shoulders. A great and gentle emotion sweeps through me at this magnificent spectacle, and a deep reverence as well.

0 1961-08-02, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   No, you have to approach the problem from the other direction.
   Evolution begins with the Inconscient, complete Inconscience; and from this Inconscient a Subconscient gradually emerges that is, a half or quarter-consciousness. There are two different things here. Consider life on earth (because the process is slightly different in the universe); earth-life begins with total Inconscience and little by little what was involved within it works out and changes this Inconscience into semi-consciousness or subconsciousness. At the same time, there is an individual working that awakens the INDIVIDUAL inconscient to an individual semiconsciousness, and here, of course, the individual has controlalthough its not actually individualized because individualization begins with consciousness. The subconscient of plants or animals, for example, isnt individualized; what we call an animals behavior doesnt arise from individualization but from the genius of the species. Consequently, the individual subconscient is something already evolved out of the general Subconscient. But when one descends to accomplish a work of transformationto bring Light into the different layers of life, for instanceone descends into a cosmic, terrestrial Subconscient, not an individual Subconscient. And the work of transformation is done within the wholenot through individualization, but through the opposite movement, through a sort of universalization.

0 1961-09-28, #Agenda Vol 02, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I feel completely abandoned to myself. This book is a real SUFFERING. I dont see where I am going, I am groping in all directions. Mother, do help me. Where lies the fault? I am suffering, you know. I would like to do it well, but it comes only in fits and starts, nothing coherent. Sometimes I feel quite incapable of carrying out this task properly.
   What should I do?

0 1962-02-06, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   A problem like that reaches a point of such acute tension that you feel you know nothing, understand nothing, you will never understand anything, its hopeless. When I reach that point, I always tilt in the same direction, its always: All right, I adore the Lord, as for the rest, it doesnt matter to me! I enter into a marvelous adoration and let Him do what He wants! Thats how it all ends up for me.
   But this would only be suitable for those who have stopped thinking.

0 1962-05-31, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It represents what you put into ityour aspiration, mon petit. No, to me it can represent only ONE thing. I call it the Supreme, because you have to call it something, but that Something is the farthest limit of our aspiration, our aspiration in every sense, in all directions, on all occasions. Something that is the supreme summit of our aspiration, WHATEVER that aspiration may be, in whatever direction, in whatever realmbeyond, really beyond, Something beyond any form of activity.
   For me, the most concrete approach to this is through the vibration of pure Love; not love for something, a love you give or receive, but Love in itself: Love. It is something self-existent. And it is certainly the most concrete approach for me. (But it isnt exclusiveit contains everything else within itself; it doesnt exclude all the other approaches, all the other contacts.)

0 1962-06-20, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   My own experience is going on in the tiniest details, details imperceptible in themselves but pointing in a certain direction that, increasingly, is this: when you take a wrong attitude, it immediately sets off all the disorders. Almost as if you shift into a wrong gear the image is too rigid, of course, its not really that but we can say that the whole universe is rolling smoothly along and its only when you go like this or like that (Mother indicates a shifting of gears) that disorders arise. You can have a wrong attitude in a number of ways. Its like a slight shifting of gears: things still work (assuming the mechanism to be particularly supple) but they gratethey grate and therefore wear out and deteriorate and break down. But if they were in the true position, there would be no friction.
   The sense of friction doesnt existit disappears, theres no friction. Friction results only from the wrong angle from something, a sort of shift.

0 1962-07-14, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Strange, theyre on that side! (Mother gestures to the right.) Why are they on the right? Ah, thats where it is on the map! Its on the other side of the ocean, isnt it? (Mother looks in the direction of the Pondicherry coast.) Thats it. No, but it does have something to do with the right. Action: the right side is action.
   They are silly, silly! They are absolutely ignorant and yet theres a flame of aspiration suddenly awakening. And then they want to know, want to investigate, want to find, want to learn, want to. Its going like this (Mother blinks her eyes like a baby bird waking up), vibrating and searching.
  --
   1900? Well, yes, in 2000 things will take a clear direction. You will still be here.
   I dont know about that!

0 1962-07-21, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   First, about your yoga. You wish to give me the charge of your yoga and I am willing to take it, but that means to give its charge to Him who is moving by His divine Shakti [Energy], whether secretly or openly, both you and me. But you must know that the necessary result of this will be that you will have to walk in the special path which He has given to me, the path which I call the path of the Integral Yoga. What I began with, what Lele1 gave me, was a seeking for the path, a circling in many directionsa first touch, a taking up, a handling and scrutiny of this or that in all the old partial yogas, some sort of complete experience of one and then the pursuit of another.
   Afterwards, when I came to Pondicherry, this unsteady condition came to an end. The Guru of the world who is within us then gave me complete directions for my pathits complete theory, the ten limbs of the body of this Yoga. These past ten years He has been making me develop it in experience, and this is not yet finished. It may take another two years, and as long as it is not finished I doubt if I shall be able to return to Bengal. Pondicherry is the appointed place for my yoga siddhi [realization], except indeed one part of it, and that is action. The centre of my work is Bengal, although I hope that its circumference will be all India and the whole earth.
   I shall write and tell you afterwards what this way of yoga is. Or if you come here I shall speak to you about it. In this matter the spoken word is better than the written. At present I can only say that its root-principle is to make a harmony and unity of complete knowledge, complete works and complete Bhakti [Devotion], to raise all this above the mind and give it its complete perfection on the supramental level of Vijnana [Gnosis]. This was the defect of the old yoga the mind and the Spirit it knew, and it was satisfied with the experience of the Spirit in the mind. But the mind can grasp only the divided and partial; it cannot wholly seize the infinite and indivisible. The minds means to reach the infinite are Sannyasa [Renunciation], Moksha [Liberation] and Nirvana, and it has no others. One man or another may indeed attain this featureless Moksha, but what is the gain? The Brahman, the Self, God are ever present. What God wants in man is to embody Himself here in the individual and in the community, to realize God in life.
  --
   We can mix with all, but in order to draw all into the true path, keeping intact the spirit and form of our ideal. If we do not do that we shall lose our direction and the real work will not be done. If we remain individually everywhere, something will be done indeed; but if we remain everywhere as parts of a Samgha, a hundred times more will be done. As yet that time has not come. If we try to give a form hastily, it may not be the exact thing we want. The Samgha will at first be in unconcentrated form. Those who have the ideal will be united but work in different places. Afterwards, they will form something like a spiritual commune and make a compact Samgha. They will then give all their work a shape according to the demand of the spirit and the need of the agenot a bound and rigid form, not an achalayatana3, but a free form which will spread out like the sea, mould itself into many waves and surround a thing here, overflood a thing there and finally take all into itself. As we go on doing this there will be established a spiritual community. This is my present idea. As yet it has not been fully developed. All is in Gods hands; whatever He makes us do, that we shall do.
   Now let me discuss some particular points of your letter. I do not want to say much in this letter about what you have written as regards your yoga. We shall have better occasion when we meet. To look upon the body as a corpse is a sign of Sannyasa, of the path of Nirvana. You cannot be of the world with this idea. You must have delight in all thingsin the Spirit as well as in the body. The body has consciousness, it is Gods form. When you see God in everything that is in the world, when you have this vision that all this is Brahman, Sarvamidam Brahma, that Vasudeva is all thisVasudevah sarvamiti then you have the universal delight. The flow of that delight precipitates and courses even through the body. When you are in such a state, full of the spiritual consciousness, you can lead a married life, a life in the world. In all your works you find the expression of Gods delight. So far I have been transforming all the objects and perceptions of the mind and the senses into delight on the mental level. Now they are taking the form of the supramental delight. In this condition is the perfect vision and perception of Sachchidananda.

0 1962-08-04, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And through certain things, I can perceive the very clear, precise and absolute direction coming from the Supreme. And He is arranging all those thingsforms, various intellectual formsexactly as they should be. Because here (pointing to the crown of the head), and even from here (lower) down to here (the forehead), its all immobile. All these vibrations come, pass through, whirl around, they come from everywhere, but here (the head) nothing moves, theres no response. And yet I have seen that on the intellectual level there are a number of what Sri Aurobindo calls frames, certain principles of organization6 giving a precise orientation to the yogas action. One of them, the strongest, is my translation of The Synthesis of Yoga. I do a page almost every day and on that page I invariably find an idea or a sentence that EXACTLY expresses the field of experiences I was in that day and the night before; and some of the details. And interestingly enough, certain points in the pages you read me today were the EXACT frame of a series of experiences Ive been havingalmost word for word, with the same words.7 That sort of thing. Its like intellectual forms being assembled to give the field of experience precision, because theres nothing here (the forehead), its blankyet some form is necessary! Well, the forms Sri Aurobindo has given predominate, but what you write has its place, and a very precise and interesting place: the way of thinking. And I see that theres an immense field of intellectual thought, intellectual formulation, with varying degrees of intensity and precision, serving as a SIEVE for the Supremes Will to pass through. And the sievethis sort of immense universal sieveis what gives the precision.8 Its very interesting. That way, the mind remains perfectly stillit has nothing to do, everything is done for it! It is nothing but a mirrora living mirror where everything gets inscribed and which can reflect back its image without becoming active.
   The nature of my nights is changing, the nature of my days is changing.

0 1962-10-12, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I am skipping all the details (it was a long thing, lasting an hour), but suddenly he went out of the room, leaving me alone (after expressing what he wanted to tell me with a gesture, which I understood). And then I simply seemed to take a step (gesture of crossing a threshold), and I found myself lying in my bed again. And at that moment I said to myself, Really! We make all kinds of complications, and its so simple: you just have to go like this (same gesture) and there you are; then you go like that (same gesture in the opposite direction) and youre back here.
   (silence)

0 1962-11-17, #Agenda Vol 03, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   From there you had a panoramic view of everything. And no sooner did I arrive than a storm broke outa terrible storm. I kept watching, and then I saw in this direction (I dont know whether it was north, south or west, but it was this direction: Mother points to the north), I saw two nearly simultaneous flashes of lightning. The first one (I was looking north, I was quite conscious of facing north) the first one, a terrific bolt, came and fell from the east; and just a moment after, very soon after, another came from the west. The two didnt come together, but they fell on the same spotthey didnt meet but they fell on the same spot. It was pitch dark, the earth and everything was dark, you couldnt see a thing, and suddenly those two flashes of lightning lit up the area where they fell, making a dreadful din, and (my field of vision was confined to that area; all the rest was in darkness, you see) it burst into flames! Everything was set ablaze. In the lightning flashes you could distinguish the tops of monuments, houses, all sorts of things, and then everything burst into flames: a dreadful conflagration.
   I even remarked to myself (it was a rather curious feeling), Well, its interesting to have such a close view of it. That is, I had the feeling that my station, as Sri Aurobindo calls it, for viewing the world was very high up, and Id had to come down to that place. And thats what made me say, Well, its interesting to have such a close view of things. (I didnt say it to that being, I thought it.) And he was there next to me, gloating, standing some distance off to my right (looking up, I could see his headMo ther looks up at the ceiling). He was jubilant, gloating: You see, you see, you see! Overjoyed. I kept absolutely still; everything was still, calm, motionless (the thought that came was like something passing through me: Its interesting to have such a close view of it). And then I stopped everything, like this (Mother remains as still as a statue, fists clenched). And very soon afterwards (I cant say exactly because time there isnt the same as here), very soon afterwards, everything stopped.1 The storms only purpose was to cause the two thunderbolts, and it stopped after they fell on the earth. And then the flames the whole area was set ablaze (it was like a huge city, but not a city: most likely it was symbolic of a country): vroom! It burst into flames; some flames were leaping up very, very high. But I simply did this, stopped everything (Mother remains motionless, eyes closed, fists clenched), and then looked out once againeverything had returned to order. Then I said (I dont know why, but I was speaking to him in English yes, its because he was speaking English, saying, You see, you see!), I said, Ah, that didnt last long. They quickly brought it under control. With that he turned his back on me (laughing); he went off one way and I the other. Then I regained my outer consciousness, which is why I remember everything exactly.
  --
   But everything Sri Aurobindo said has always come true. You know he also said (but it was in jest, he didnt write it) concerning reuniting with Pakistan he told me: Ten years. It will take ten years. The ten years passed and nothing happenedOFFICIALLY nothing happened. But the truth is (I learned it through certain government officials), Pakistan did make some overtures in that direction, asking for a union to be reestablished (they would have kept some sort of autonomy, but the two countries would have UNITED, it would have been a UNION), and Nehru refused.
   How foolish!

0 1963-05-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The effect on others is increasing considerably, though it too isnt the result of an attempt in that direction, not at all: those things are automatic. Yet, as I said, at certain seconds, there rises something that wills. Wills, but not in the ordinary way: something that its between knowing, seeing and willing. A little something that has something of all three and is as hard as diamond (oh, how can I explain it? I dont know, there are no words for it), it has something of the emotive vibration, but thats not it; it has nothing to do with anything intellectual, nothing at all; its neither intellectual vision nor supramental knowledge, thats not it, its something else. It is a diamondlike, live forcelive, living. And thats all-powerful. But extremely fleetingit immediately gets covered over by a heap of things, like visions, supramental vision, understanding, discernmentall this has become a constant mass, you understand.
   From the standpoint of sensitivity or sensation (I dont know what to call it), when the body rests and enters the static state of pure Existence Before, it was (or gave) a sense of total immobilitynot something motionless: a non-movement, I dont know; not the opposition between something motionless and something in motion, not that the absence of any possibility of movement. But now, as it happens, the body has the sense not only of a terrestrial movement, but of a universal movement so fantastically rapid that it is imperceptible, beyond perception. As if beyond Being and Non-Being, there were a something thats both I mean, that doesnt move WITHIN a space but is both beyond immobility and beyond movement, in the sense that its so rapid as to be absolutely imperceptible to ALL the senses (I dont mean merely the physical senses), all the senses in all the worlds.

0 1963-06-08, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It was yesterday, I think, in the night (not last night, the night before, the 6th of June, that is), for more than three hours without stop, there was no consciousness of anything any morenot a thought, not a will, not an action, not an observation, nothing. Everything was at a standstill. For instance, all that happens when you have experiences and you work in the subconscientall that, everything, everything was at a standstill. It was like the action of a Force. Without any thought or idea, only the sensation and a sort of perception (awareness is the right word) of a Force, but a stupendous Force, you know, like the Force of the earthall the combinations of the forces along with an action that came from above and worked on them. It was going through me (especially around the head down to the chest, but it was going on in the whole body, and it was spherical), it went through me and out, and out, and out in this direction, that direction, another direction, innumerable directions, and nothing but movements of Force (there was something like a perception of colors, but not in the ordinary way: like a knowledge that certain vibrations corresponded to a particular color), but it was an incalculable MASS, almost indefinite, at any rate, and simultaneous. At first I said to myself (laughing), Whats going on? Then I thought, All right, it doesnt matter, Ill just let it happen. And it went on and on and onthree hours without letup.
   I didnt know I didnt know anything any more, didnt understand anything any more, had no bearings any more; there was only a Force on the move, and what Force! It was a Force that came from beyond and acted upon all the forces of the earth: on big things, on small things, on small, precise points, on enormous things, and it was going on and on and on, on this point, that point, all points together and everywhere. I suppose that if the mind had been associated with the experience, it would have gone a bit mad! It gave that impression, you see, because it was so overwhelming that And all the time, all the time in the physical center (the physical center, that is, in the corporeal base), with something in an ecstatic state; it was very interesting how that ecstasyan ecstasy that sparkled like a diamondwas there, so sweet, so sweet, so peaceful, as though it were there all the while, telling the body, Dont be afraid, (laughing) dont worry, dont be afraid, all is well. As though the supreme Power were saying all the while, Dont worry, dont worry, leave it to me, leave it to me. It lasted more than three hours.

0 1963-07-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But I never concerned myself with that domain. Even when I saw the Pope, the one before the last one [Pius XII], who came to offer me the Keys (I told you the story, didnt I?), even with him, who had a SPIRITUAL rapport with the universal Mother, I never concerned myself. I never did anything for him, I never concerned myself with him. This time, for whatever reason, there is something that keeps pulling and pulling me in that direction.
   I dont know, maybe something decisive is going to be achieved? I dont know.
  --
   Why is my attention drawn all of a sudden in that direction? Generally, I am not interested in all those things. For the action, I am concerned only with the little field of experience I have been given, and my terrestrial action is of quite another nature; its on a higher plane, very independent of individuals.
   I find there are three noteworthy points: First, this man was already concerning himself with terrestrial affairs when he was a mere cardinal in Milan (in Milan he was very involved in labor problems there are many workers in Milan and that interested him, he liked to solve workers problems). Then there is the continuation of the other ones work: the rapprochement, so to say, with Russia, which is truly interesting. Last, there is the fact that Kennedy is Catholic. And also, that all this is happening just now, I mean when AT LEAST (I dont say at best, I say at least) the foundation of the new world is being prepared.

0 1963-10-19, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The Help is ever present, in the sense that you unquestionably feel that the Force acts (the Force, that is, the supreme Consciousness and supreme Knowledge), the Force acts with a sort of pressure on all people and all circumstances, in a favorable direction so that what happens may truly be the bestand the best hierarchically; in other words, the highest and purest (you know my definition of pure) is a sort of center in relation to which things get organized; they get organized hierarchically, each with its right to progress, but as if to favor whats closest to and most expressive of the Divine that is going on constantly, I see hundreds of examples of it all the time. Yet, from the point of view of outer circumstances, there is such a tension that you feel you are close to catastrophe.
   Sri Aurobindo told me that there are three difficulties, and they are the three things that have to be conquered for the earth to be ready (this is from the purely outward point of view, I am not speaking of psychological factors): government, money, health.

0 1963-10-26, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   First it came from one direction, then a dead calmits always that way. You know how cyclones work? Its something that rotates, and at the center theres a dead calm; all around is a whirlwind, and it rotates as it advances. So the first part (what might be called the front of the cyclone) arrives from one direction, then it goes on rotating, and the second part comes from the opposite direction. We have an American rear admiral here who knows those things very wellall seafaring people know themhe had seen the cyclone from a distance on the sea and warned us. But its always that way, I had noticed it. The first wave arrived from the north, but as we were forewarned, everything had been closed. Then the wind died down completely, but the southern windows had been left open. And the second wave came from the other direction (it came around evening, a little before 7, I dont remember; anyway, I was sitting at the table here). And I saw I saw that whirlwind coming, and inside it there were formations: like heaped masses, some gray-black, others reddish-brown. And I watched it all; I saw them from a distance, there were lots of them: big formations, about as big as houses. They came in heaped masses, with kinds of formations WITHIN the whirlwind. So I was here, just beginning to have my dinner, when a reddish-brown formation went over, like this, right from here towards your house (Mother sweeps across the room from south to north), and it struck me. Mon petit, howling pains! And then a horrible discomfort. So naturally, my usual remedy: I stayed still and offered it all to the Lord. The formation went past, didnt stop (it went past, struck and went away), and left behind it (afterwards the pains were dull, they could be controlled) a kind of very peculiar sense of discomfort a sort of wickedness, like big sharp claws raking ones stomach. So I was expecting something for youothers too fell sick who were in the path of the formation. But there must have been quite a number of cases, because I saw many formations that one did strike, you see. I saw it arrive as swiftly as the cyclone, strike, and then go on. So when I was told that you had a fever, instantly I thought, Thats it.
   Was it painful?

0 1963-12-03, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I would like to be able to pass this experience on to others, because, well, its definitive: once you LIVE that for several hours, its over, you can no longer entertain any illusion,3 its not possibleits impossible, its so STUPID, you know! Above all, so silly, so flatits impossible (Mother makes the same gesture of a round, moving totality). But then you cannot say, I said this, the other answered that! How can we express ourselves? Our language is still truly inadequate. Its not that way its (same round gesture) and there isnt even either sense or direction: its not that this goes that way and that goes this way (gesture from one person to another, or from inside to outside), or that it goes this way and comes back that way (gesture from low to high and high to low), thats not it; its a whole a whole that moves, moves always forward, and with internal vibrations, internal movements. So according to the given point of concentration, this or that action is done.
   Very long ago, many times over, when I looked at the universe (I dont mean the earth: the universe), it was that way (same gesture of a round totality). How can I put it? It gave the feeling of moving forward, of moving forward towards a progressive perfection. For years on end, my perception of the earth has been that way; and now, it takes place completely at will, in the sense that it takes only just a small movement in the consciousness (gesture of a trigger or a slight reversal, a drawing within) for the whole earth to move that way, along with the events and the inner complications. But now, that same consciousness of the whole works that way: when it thinks of something (for some reason of work, not because of an arbitrary decision), the thing imposes itself; its a whole set of things that presents itself as the TOTALITY on which the action must take place. So it may be a small thing like this sports festival, it may be the Ashram (very often the Ashram as a whole), it may be a part of the earth, or sometimes even a single individual (who is no longer an individual but a set or a world of things, a totality4). A totality of things (round gesture) that move within themselves in (Mother draws within that totality small movements, individual and local, like waves or currents of force). Oh, its most interesting! And even there, there is no more notion of this person, that person, so-and-soall that vanishes.

0 1963-12-21, #Agenda Vol 04, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When you can enter that vibration in its purity, you realize immediately that it has the same quality as the vibration of Love: it is directionless. It isnt something going from one thing to another, it doesnt go from here to there (gesture from low to high) or there to here it is (round gesture) simultaneous and total.
   I mean it isnt something that needs the two poles in order to exist; it doesnt go from one pole to the other or from the other to the one: its a vibration which in its purity is the same as the vibration of Love, which doesnt go from here to there or from there to here the two poles of existence.

0 1964-06-27, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I dont feel tiredwhat tires me is rather human beings with their constant agitation and troubled atmosphere. Anyway, I am happy to be with my brother. The difficulty is that I no longer know how to speak, I have lost the habit of conversation, and people talk and talk, ask questions without giving you time to answer, and in that whirl it is quite hard to pull down true words. In fact, my only rest is when I am alone doing my japa; then everything seems to open, to relax, and I feel I am back home. Otherwise I am like a cork tossed about on the sea and turned in all directions. People dont livethey bustle about. It is painful to be constantly pulled outside, constantly torn from oneself. I am not able to live in this world any longer, I think I would die if I had to stay here.
   S.

0 1964-08-26, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Would it be in the direction of a materializing power? But those materializations arent permanent, they have no permanence.
   Yet Sri Aurobindo doesnt speak of materialization, he speaks of transformation.

0 1964-10-28, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   No, nothing in particular I rather had a very strong indication that it was a reaction in the wrong direction.
   Did you see the photo of the man [Suslov] who is behind Khrushchevs downfall? Oh!

0 1964-12-02, #Agenda Vol 05, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And that vitalwhich was used to being at the helm, to governing everything, to deciding everything, anyway it was the master of the house the vital must first begin with detachment, which generally, when it isnt very refined, turns into disgust. A general detachment. Then all at once (sometimes all at once, sometimes slowly), it feels that the impulse, the inspiration must come from within, that nothing must come from outside anymore and excite it. And then, if it has goodwill, it turns within and begins to ask for the Inspiration, the Command and the direction; and after that, it can start doing work again.
   For some people, it takes years; for others, its done very quicklyit depends on the quality of the vital. If its a refined vital, of a higher quality, it goes quickly; if it is something very brutish, which goes like a bulldog or a buffalo, it takes a little more time.

0 1965-04-17, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I cant say I have answers, but in both directions there has been some opening, as it were. The feeling that I was in front of a wall and its opening up, I am allowed to proceed. Well, the conclusions arent there yet, but in both directions we have actually taken a step forward because its openthere isnt a wall any longer, its open.
   Especially that feeling of being stuck has gone away.

0 1965-04-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But this is a personal affair, it has nothing to do with the public or collectivity, while the other point is interesting: I have a feeling it is Natures collaboration, pushing humanity in that direction in order to prepare a matter more receptive to the ideal that wants to manifest.
   When I thought about the last conversation again, it seemed to me that the gap between the two creations, the animal and the supramental, is so huge that it doesnt make much difference whether the body is more supple and so on.

0 1965-06-14, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I remember, for instance, there was a time when I used to see people in the form of animals! It was the indication of the type of nature they belonged to. And I remember, when I was still in France, having one day seen (I was sitting in a large room) hosts of small animals coming, especially rabbits, cats, dogs, all kinds of animals, birds; they kept coming and coming, all of them onto my knees! And there were hosts and hosts of them. And there suddenly entered the room a big tiger, which rushed at them all and vrff! sent them scurrying off in all directions! (Mother laughs) But the animals were people and the tiger, too, was someone.
   Its amusing.

0 1965-06-23, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   We have four large sections: the cultural section in the north, that is, in the direction of Madras; in the east, the industrial section; in the south, the international section; and in the west, that is, towards the Lake, the residential section.
   I will explain myself: the residential section, where there will be the houses of people who will have already subscribed, and all the others who come in their numbers to have a plot in Auroville. That will be towards the Lake.
  --
   Then in the north (thats where there is the most space, naturally), in the direction of Madras: the cultural zone. There, an auditorium (the auditorium I have dreamed of doing for a long time: plans had already been made), an auditorium with a concert hall and grand organ, the best you find now (it seems they make wonderful things). I want a grand organ. There will also be a theater stage with wings (a revolving stage and so on, the very best you can find). So, here, a magnificent auditorium. There will be a library, there will be a museum, exhibition rooms (not in the auditorium: in addition to it), there will be a cinema studio, a cinema school; there will be a gliding club: already we almost have the governments authorization and promiseanyway its already at a very advanced stage. Then, towards Madras, where there is plenty of space, a stadium. And a stadium that we want to be the most modern and the most perfect possible, with the idea (an idea Ive had for a long time) that twelve years (the Olympic games take place every four years), twelve years after 1968 (in 1968, the Olympiad will be held in Mexico), twelve years after, we would have the Olympic games in India, here. So we need space.
   In between these sections, there are intermediary zones, four intermediary zones: one for public services (the post, etc.), a zone for transportation (railway station and, if possible, an airfield), a zone for food supplies (that one would be towards the Lake and would include dairies, poultry farms, orchards, cultivation, etc.it would spread to incorporate the Lake estate3: what they wanted to do separately will be done as a part of Auroville); then a fourth zone (Ive said public services, transportation, food supplies), and the fourth zone: shops. We dont need many shops, but a few are necessary to get what we dont produce. These zones are like quarters, you see.
  --
   In the old formation I had made, there had to be a hill and a river. A hill was necessary because Sri Aurobindos house was on top of the hill. But Sri Aurobindo was there, in the center. It was arranged according to the plan of my symbol, that is to say, a central point with Sri Aurobindo and all that concerns Sri Aurobindos life, then four large petals (which werent the same as in this drawing, they were something different), then twelve petals around (the city proper), then around that, there were the disciples residential quarters (you know my symbol: instead of [partition] lines, there are strips; well, the last circular strip formed the residential place of the disciples), and everyone had his house and his garden: a little house and a garden for everyone. And there were means of communication; I wasnt sure if it was individual transportation or collective transportation (like those small open trams in the mountains, you know) that crossed the city in all directions to bring the disciples back to the center of the city. And around all that, there was a wall with entrance gates and guards at each gate, so people entered only with permission. And there was no money: within the walls, no money; at the various entrance gates, people found banks and counters where they deposited their money and received in exchange tickets with which they could have lodging, food, this and that. But no money. And inside, absolutely nothing, no one had any money the tickets were only for visitors, who entered only with a permit. It was a fantastic organization. No money, I didnt want money!
   Oh, Ive forgotten one thing in my plan: I wanted to build a workers housing estate. But it should be part of the industrial section (perhaps an extension on the edge of the industrial section).

0 1965-06-30, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There is this habit of repetition, and then the sense of a fatality. For instance, if you receive a blow or something goes wrong, immediately there is that sense of fatality: Ah, now its like that, now its like that (same circular gesture). So here also (all this is going on in the consciousness of the cells), here also you must tell them: No! Its not irremediable: if you do like this (for instance, something that has been accidentally twisted), if you have the movement in the opposite direction, it will be remediable.
   Its not brilliant displays of will or powers at all, its not that: its a very, very quiet persuasive powerexerted very gently but very confidently and very persistently.

0 1965-07-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, thats how it must be. Well see. If what I perceive is correct, things must move in that direction.
   Generally when you are unwell, I am in a terribly bad mood.
  --
   Its true, its neither in this direction nor in that one (gesture from Mother to Satprem and from Satprem to Mother): its all one. Thats why I didnt say anything. Because our habit is to see like this (gesture from one to the other), but its not true, its not like that: it is a whole, which in everyone takes its own expression.
   All right.

0 1965-07-28, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And examples come, so precise, to show you: See, when you are like this, outer things are like this (gesture in the wrong direction); and when you are like that (gesture in the good direction), outer things are like that. Then you can only tweak your ears and say, There, again the same old stupidity.
   I dont know if I am understood, but I understand myself! (Mother laughs)

0 1965-08-18, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There are places (and, I must say, rather interesting ones, I am not saying they are without interest) where the exact expression of the ideas that must govern the world is being worked out. Its in that direction, its there. The past two or three nights, I have been going to that place. I find it rather gray and dull, but anyway its not without a certain savor. And several people have seen you somewhere there. There are kinds of large halls with immense corridors, and its very clear the atmosphere is very clear. But its a painstaking work, oh, as if thousands of scribes were writing very quietly. And immense, immenseit is as vast as the earth.
   If I go there, I will find you.

0 1965-08-21, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Only, there was a very great intensity of transformation, and (how can I explain?) Its like a shift in the directing will. And then, there was materially, physically, a sort of surprise, and a need to identify with the new directionits a little difficult. Its difficult to explain, too. Its no longer the same thing that makes you actact or anything, of course: move, walk, anything. It isnt the same center any longer. And then if, by habit, you try to reconnect with the old center, oh, that creates a great disorder, and you must be very careful not to let habit, the old habit, express itself and manifest.
   Its hard to express it. It is still too much just an action.

0 1965-09-15a, #Agenda Vol 06, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I spent my night in a not a hurricane, not a cyclone, but worse than any cyclone. I was in a dark room, with glass panes on all sides (thats symbolic), and through the glass panes, I saw Everywhere I looked, there was wind blowing in all directions and carrying everything away: houses, trees, everything, but everything. Without letup.
   And an infernal noise. It was clear that it should also have carried away the place where I was, but that didnt move.

0 1966-01-14, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Oh, small details, all the shops were closed. But dont you think its really the sign of a change of direction?
   How can I put it? One hopes so.9
  --
   February and March are very critical months. In April (Mother makes a gesture of reversal), maybe things will take the true direction.
   There. Well, I am glad that you were conscious of what you told me (!)

0 1966-01-22, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Only, I have noticed that in this bodys life, Ive never had the same experience twice I may have the same type of experience to a higher degree or to a much vaster degree, but never identically the same. And I dont retain the experience: I am constantly, constantly (gesture forward), constantly forging ahead; you know, the work of transformation of the consciousness is so rapid, it must be done so fast that you dont have time to enjoy or dwell upon an experience or draw long-lasting satisfaction from it, its impossible. It comes powerfully, very powerfully, it changes everything, then something else comes. Its the same thing with the transformation of the cells: all kinds of little disorders come, but to the consciousness they are clearly disorders related to the transformation, so you see to that particular point, you want order to be restored; at the same time, something knows full well that the disorder came to make the transition from the ordinary automatic functioning to the conscious functioning under the direct direction and the direct Influence of the Supreme. And the body itself knows this (still, its no fun to have a pain here or a pain there, or this or that being disorganized, but it KNOWS). And when that point has reached a certain stage of transformation, you move on to another point, then on to another, and on to another again. So nothing is done, no work is definitively done until everything is ready. So you have to do the same work again, but on a higher or a vaster level, or with more intensity or in greater detail (it depends on the case), until EVERYTHING has been brought to a homogeneous point and is ready in the same way.
   According to what I see, its going as fast as it can go. But it takes a great deal of time. And everything is a question of changing the habit. The whole automatic habit of millennia must be changed into a conscious action, directly guided by the supreme Consciousness.

0 1966-02-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When people asked Thon, How did things come to happen that way? (he used to say that the first Emanation and the next three separated themselves), Why did they separate themselves?, he would reply very simply (laughing), Why is the world as it is, in this state of disorder? Why is it like that? Thats not the interesting point: the interesting point is to make it what it must be. But after all those years, there is something in me that would like to have the power or the key: the process. And is it not necessary to feel or live or see (but see, I mean, see actively) how it went this way (Mother bends her wrist in one direction) in order to be able to go that way (she bends it in the opposite direction)? Thats the question.
   (silence)
   Whats interesting is that now that this mind of the cells has been organized, it appears to be going with dizzying speed through the process of human mental development all over again, in order to reach the key, precisely. There is of course the sense that the state we are in is a false unreality, but there is a sort of need or aspiration to find, not a mental or moral why, nothing of the sort, but a HOWhow it got twisted this way (Mother bends her wrist in one direction), in order to straighten it out (gesture in the opposite direction).
   The pure sensation has the experience of the two vibrations [the false and the true, the twisted and the straight vibrations], but the transition from one to the other is still a mystery. Its a mystery, because it cannot be explained: neither when it goes this way (gesture to the false direction) nor when it goes that way (gesture to the true direction).
   So there is something that says like Thon, Learn to BE that way [on the true side] and stay that way. But there is an impression that the stay that way must depend on knowing why one is that way or how one is that way?

0 1966-03-26, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Mon petit, I dont know what comparison I should use, but I am certain there are some things that are invisible this way (Mother rotates her wrist in one direction), and visible that way (gesture in the other direction). My impression is that what we see as a considerable difference between the tangible, the material, and the invisible or the fluid, is only a change of position. Perhaps an internal change of position because it isnt a physical, material change of position, but it is a change of position. Because I have experienced this I dont know how many times, hundreds of times: like this (gesture in one direction), everything is what we call natural, as we are used to seeing it, then all of a sudden, like that (gesture in the other direction), the nature of things changes. And nothing has happened, except something within, something in the consciousness: a change of position. Do you remember that aphorism in which Sri Aurobindo says that everything depends on a change in the relation of the sun-consciousness and the earth-consciousness?2 When I read it the first time, I didnt understand, I thought it was something in the very subtle realms; and then, very recently, in one of those experiences, I suddenly understood, I said, But thats it! It isnt a shift since nothing moves, yet it is shift, it is a change of relation. A change of position. Its no more tangible than that, thats what is so wonderful! Oh, the other day, I found another sentence of Sri Aurobindos: Now everything is different, yet everything has remained the same. (It was on one of my birthday cards.) I read that and said to myself, Oh, thats what it means! Its true, now everything is different, yet everything has remained the same. We understand it psychologically, but its not psychological: its HERE (Mother touches matter). But until one has a solid base From the standpoint of concrete, physical, material things, I dont think theres anyone more materialistic than I was, with all the practical common sense and positivism; and now I understand why it was like that: it gave my body a marvelous base of equilibrium. It prevented me from having the very sort of madness we were talking about earlier.3 The explanations I asked for were always material, I always sought the material explanation, and it seemed obvious to me theres no need of any mystery, nothing of the sortyou just explain things materially. Therefore I am certain this isnt a tendency to mystic dreaming in me, not at all, not at all, this body had nothing mystic! Nothing Thank God!
   I saw that (not in my head, because for me there are no such limits), in this sort of conglomerate, here: the nearest explanation is a shifta shift, the angle of perception becoming different. And its not really that, words are incorrect, because its far more subtle and at the same time far more complete than that. I have watched the change several times; well, this change gives you, to the outward consciousness, the sense of a shift. A motionless shift, meaning that you dont change places. And its not, as we might be tempted to think, a drawing within and a drawing without, its not that at all, not at allits an angle of perception that changes. You are in a certain angle, then you are in another. I have seen small objects of that sort for the amusement of children: when those objects are in a certain position, they look compact and hard and black, and when you turn them another way, they are clear, luminous, transparent. Its something like that, but its not that, thats an approximation.

0 1966-05-18, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This material mindwhich is organizing itself, which has learned to fall silent, learned to prayhas a sort of spontaneous need or spontaneous thirst for beauty, for a beautiful form. I see this at night, because its need expresses itself in a setting and with eventsencounters and eventsand the setting is always extremely vast and very beautiful, very harmonious. And the people who move about do so harmoniously, too. And in the morning when I come out of that, I see the progress, the direction of the development; well, it has a sort of spontaneous need for a beautiful form.
   Just now, while listening to you, it relaxed all at once, it rested in a satisfaction: Ah, at last. And it isnt at all mental: its (how can I explain?) the harmony of form.

0 1966-10-19, #Agenda Vol 07, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Naturally, all those entities were more or less spontaneously doing the Supremes work, but (how can I explain it?) without their having a conscious will: they did it simply and spontaneously, because they were beings of harmony, working harmoniously. But now, in Durgas case its very clearvery clear: she is like this (gesture turned upward, awaiting the Supremes Command). In her relationship with the hostile beings, in her legendary yearly battle (which is of course symbolic), she is like this (same gesture), eager to know the direction, the indication, the gesture to be made.
   When Sri Aurobindo was here, every year at the time of Durgas battle, I used to receive from him the very clear indication of the aspect of the adverse forces that had to be vanquished and subdued. (It was very interesting, and I generally noted it down, but I dont know where all that has gone.) It went on like that for thirty years. And after his departure there only remained the Supreme.

0 1967-04-22, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its like that habit of the cells of drawing the force from below (through food and so on): when you try to transform that into a constant habit of drawing the force from above, every instant, in every small detail, theres a difficult moment. (From above is a manner of speaking, because if you think about it, it may also be from the depths: theres no sense of direction, no high or low or anything of the sort.) But its no longer leaning on the surface for support for standing, walking, sitting, for making movements.
   There is also the pressure of external agitation (the world lives in perpetual agitation), the external agitation: everything and everyone is rushing towards one really doesnt know why. They want to do ten times more things in a given space of time than is normally possible, so it goes like this (gesture of trepidation). And to have the strength to remain calm and well-balanced in the middle of it, in that whirl

0 1967-05-20, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   There is increasingly a sort of pressure of the Consciousness to awaken all thats semiconscious, subconscious, and to reach the Inconscient; its like something going down (gesture like a drill) with a pressure. And as it goes down, as the pressure increases, there is a sort of (what can I call it?) a review or overall vision of the whole state of consciousness of the being and beings (gesture around). And the result is the perception of such imbecility! When you live, while you live something (you dont even know what you live while you live it), you feel you are in a light, that you receive a direction, that you follow that direction, that, well, that a light of consciousness is acting; and when there is that pressure of THE Consciousness (like that, from above; we could call it the truth-consciousness or anything THE consciousness), then all you have done, all you have thought, all you have felt, all you have seen, all those things which appeared to be conscious it all becomes so idiotic that you really need a faith very (how should I put it?), not only a very complete faith, but a very complete surrender in order not to be crushed under the weight of that imbecility.
   All morning I reviewed all kinds of movements of consciousness (not a recollection in thought or sensation or vision, but a recollection in the consciousness) of whole periods of life, especially life with Sri Aurobindo, because at the time, I felt I was relying on the divine Consciousness and acting under its pressure (already); so its interesting that it should now look like an abyss of imbecility. And then, you wonder what Sri Aurobindohe who was consciouswhat he must have felt? How he must have seen all that around him, all those people bustling and acting and moving around him (Mother takes her head in her hands). You say to yourself that if he had the consciousness which is here now (he surely had it! He had that consciousness), well, it was a marvel of patience. Thats my conclusion.

0 1967-05-24, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I know it is the Russian explanation of the recent trend to spirituality and mysticism that it is a phenomenon of capitalist society in its decadence. But to read an economic cause, conscious or unconscious, into all phenomena of mans history is part of the Bolshevik gospel born of the fallacy of Karl Marx. Mans nature is not so simple and one-chorded as all thatit has many lines and each line produces a need of his life. The spiritual or mystic line is one of them and man tries to satisfy it in various ways, by superstitions of all kinds, by ignorant religionism, by spiritism, demonism and what not, in his more enlightened parts by spiritual philosophy, the higher occultism and the rest, at his highest by the union with the All, the Eternal or the Divine. The tendency towards the search of spirituality began in Europe with a recoil from the nineteenth centurys scientific materialism, a dissatisfaction with the pretended all-sufficiency of the reason and the intellect and a feeling out for something deeper. That was a pre-war [of 1914] phenomenon, and began when there was no menace of Communism and the capitalistic world was at its height of insolent success and triumph, and it came rather as a revolt against the materialistic bourgeois life and its ideals, not as an attempt to serve or sanctify it. It has been at once served and opposed by the post-war disillusionmentopposed because the post-war world has fallen back either on cynicism and the life of the senses or on movements like Fascism and Communism; served because with the deeper minds the dissatisfaction with the ideals of the past or the present, with all mental or vital or material solutions of the problem of life has increased and only the spiritual path is left. It is true that the European mind having little light on these things dallies with vital will-o-the-wisps like spiritism or theosophy or falls back upon the old religionism; but the deeper minds of which I speak either pass by them or pass through them in search of a greater Light. I have had contact with many and the above tendencies are very clear. They come from all countries and it was only a minority who hailed from England or America. Russia is differentunlike the others it has lingered in mediaeval religionism and not passed through any period of revoltso when the revolt came it was naturally anti-religious and atheistic. It is only when this phase is exhausted that Russian mysticism can revive and take not a narrow religious but the spiritual direction. It is true that mysticism revers, turned upside down, has made Bolshevism and its endeavour a creed rather than a political theme and a search for the paradisal secret millennium on earth rather than the building of a purely social structure. But for the most part Russia is trying to do on the communistic basis all that nineteenth-century idealism hoped to get atand failedin the midst of or against an industrial competitive environment. Whether it will really succeed any better is for the future to decide for at present it only keeps what it has got by a tension and violent control which is not over.
   Sri Aurobindo

0 1967-06-03, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   If it could be realized, it would be very good. It means that the most beautiful works of art, the most beautiful teachings, all the best of what humanity is GOING to produce, would be collected and within reach of all those who had a television. There would be the image along with the explanation, or the text or speech. A kind of imposing central building where everything would be gathered. I found it rather attractive. I told her that we would have that in Auroville (not the central office: just a receiving set). She said that instead of teachers who teach poorly what they know, there would be the best teaching on each subject. (I didnt ask her WHO would select those people that remains the somewhat delicate point.) But I found the idea very attractive. She said things are moving in that direction.
   Yes, but its still a kind of encyclopedia.

0 1967-06-17, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I wanted to tell you that I saw V. a few days ago, and he said that according to what he had felt or seen, he was ninety-five percent certain that a new conflict will break out around September or October, probably in the direction of Pakistan or China: between Pakistan and India or between China and India.
   People are expecting that.

0 1967-07-15, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The (childs) present form cannot reflect it (Richard): its something that will develop in that direction little by little. Well see. For the moment, he is really his fathers and mothers son!
   Interesting children, those that are born now.

0 1967-12-27, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   If there were a way (thats what I have been working on for some time), a way to make all this youth understand that to destroy isnt constructive they cant give birth to anything whatsoever with this means. They want to change the state of things, its understood they may not see very clearly the direction in which we should go, but that things must change is agreed but still, this method is downright stupid. Theyve again thrown a bomb at that poor Indira! She was at a university, at Santiniketan where she had gone to deliver a speech for the prize distribution (or something of the sort), and they threw a bomb at her. But this time, she was unscathed.
   You see, that was the method of the adverse forces to prove the creation was bad: they werent satisfied with the creation and set about doing that thats what they have been doing on a big scale. But it proves nothing! They have established death, established destruction and all forms of violence and hatred, anyway they have changed everything the wrong way round with the thought that, in that way, the world would become a superior worldwhich is idiotic.

0 1967-12-30, #Agenda Vol 08, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its an extremely interesting experience: how the same actions, the same work, the same observations, the same relationship with the people around (near or far), how they take place in the mind, through intelligence, and how they take place in the consciousness, by experience. And thats what this body is now learningto replace the mental government of intelligence by the spiritual government of the consciousness. And it makes (it looks like nothing, one may not notice it), it makes a tremendous difference, to the point of multiplying the bodys possibilities a hundredfold. When the body is subjected to rules, even if they are broad, even if they are comprehensive, it is a slave to those rules and its possibilities are limited by them. But when its governed by the Spirit and the Consciousness that gives it an incomparable possibility and flexibility! And thats what will give it the capacity to prolong its life, to last longer: its by replacing the mental, intellectual government by the government of the Spirit, of the Consciousness THE Consciousness. Outwardly, it doesnt seem to make much difference, but My experience is like this (because now my body no longer obeys the mind or the intelligence at all, not any moreit doesnt even understand how that can be done), and more and more, and better and better, it follows the direction and impulsion of the Consciousness. But then, it sees, almost at each minute, the tremendous difference that it makes. For instance, time has lost its value (its rigid value): you can do exactly the same thing in very little time or in much time. Necessities have lost their authority: you can adapt yourself this way, adapt yourself that way. All the lawsthose laws that were laws of Naturehave lost all their despotism, we may say: it no longer works that way. All you have to do is always, always be supple, attentive, and responsive (if any such thing can be!) to the influence of the Consciousness the Consciousness in its all-powerfulnessso as to go through all this with extraordinary suppleness.
   That is the discovery being made more and more.

0 1968-03-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   You say this: Yes, science can find. If it moves in a very definite direction, if it progresses sufficiently and doesnt stop on the way, they will find the same thing that mystics have found, that religious people have found, that everyone has found, because there is only one thing to be found and not two. There is only one. So you may go a long way, you may wind and turn and wind again, if you go long enough without stopping, you are sure to reach the same point. Once you have reached there, you feel theres nothing at all to be found! Theres nothing to be found. And thats the power. Thats it, and thats all. Its like that.
   What do you mean by Thats the power?

0 1968-04-10, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   That is, it can be done as long as they accept the direction of a sage.
   Yes.

0 1968-04-13, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   R. [Aurovilles architect] has come for five days, and he wants to make what he calls a district of Auroville, that is to say, instead of tackling the problem of ten or twenty thousand people at once, he wants to start with two or three thousand, on the level of infrastructure, but above all to see how it will work: the experiment of life in Auroville. I had thought about it, and when I spoke to you last time, thats what came: in what direction should the experiment be carried out? You see, Y. has ideas in the field of education (I am not intervening); as for R., he has ideas in the field of construction (I am not intervening); but no one has studied the problem on the level of administration or organization, and of money, and that was precisely what I spoke of to you about last time.
   So if you could read me what I told you, if it does Ill give them the text. There is also this communist Russian architect, who has become quite enthusiastic: to him Auroville is the ideal realization. He is a very strong boy, with some power (also a power of conviction over people). So it would be interesting if he could have a glimpse of the direction in which were going.
   (Mother listens to Satprem read out the last conversation)

0 1968-05-22, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its clearly (not in the detail of it, but in the direction of the movement), clearly a will to have done with the past and to open the door to the future.
   Its like a sort of revulsion with stagnation. Thats it. A thirst for something which is ahead and appears more luminous, better. And indeed there IS somethingits not just imagination: there IS something. Thats the beauty of it, its that there is something. There IS a Response. There IS a Force that wants to express itself.

0 1968-11-02, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The basis should be the manifestation of supramental forces. Only, theres no question of anything like that in religion, of course. If there had been any question of a Force or a Light or a change in the atmosphere announcing Christs reincarnation, they could have gone along in that direction, but theres nothing of that sort.2
   There are some vague Scriptures that mention it. But theyre regarded as crank esotericism.

0 1968-12-04, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its all the timeconstantly, unceasinglyall the time brought face to face with this experience that when you are like this (Mother tips two fingers on one side), that is, turned to the Divine, things work out miraculouslymiraculously its unbelievable; and being like that (Mother tips two fingers on the other side) is enough for everything to be disgusting, to go wrong, to grate: a TINY LITTLE movement either of trusting opening, or of the ordinary consciousness (not at all a consciousness of revolt or negation, not at all: merely the ordinary consciousness, the consciousness of life as people have it the ordinary consciousness), and its enough things become appalling; and then, like this (gesture in the other direction): miraculously marvelous. For microscopic, unimportant things, you understand, that is to say, for EVERYTHINGno question of important or unimportant things, nothing of that sort for everything it becomes simply miraculous, yet its the same thing! In one case you are in pain, you suffer, you are miserable, you even fall ill, and in the other case And its the same thing.
   But it has reached the point where now the body is quite astounded that one can live the ordinary life with the ordinary consciousness and be contented! It finds that appalling, you know, appalling. And that way of living in chaos, ugliness, wickedness, selfishness, violence, oh and cruelty and all possible horrors, and of finding it all perfectly natural. Thats when the body says to itself, It must be it must have been necessary as a stage in the development, and its an effect of the Grace, so theres nothing to say, theres only to admire.

0 1968-12-25, #Agenda Vol 09, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And then You know that from every side Ive been trying to get Sri Aurobindo published [in France], in particular The Human Cycle. At last I got a letter from a certain J. B., who writes: For a long time now, a publisher (F.) has been asking me to create a collection in his publishing house. I thought of a few books, mostly foreign ones, grouped around a title such as Towards the spiritual mutation and focused on the present researches, individual and clumsy, often dangerous, but sincere and undertaken in a spirit quite different from that of the former generation, the spirit of a certain youth I am in contact with. The idea is to show these young people that their attempts and aspirations are legitimate, even if they have discovered them through drugs, since in many cases drugs alone have been able to unmoor them from the Cartesian rationalist bedrock, to put before them experiences that, at least, are positive, and to offer them directions and models. In other words, the aspect of amateurism and exoticism found in Z [another publisher] would be replaced here by a practical and technical side, wide open to all spiritual researches, whatever they may be, to all duly controlled metapsychical experiments, serious psychedelic experiments (I have T. Leary in mind, for instance), new theologies Naturally, there would be room, a major place, for the Oriental endeavor. In sum, it would involve all researches and attempts to crack open that sort of corset within which the Western mind has been going in circles for such a long time. That does not in the least rule out, on the contrary, certain scientific worksof pure sciencein which, out of intrinsic necessity, this Cartesianism has already been singularly shaken. Of course, all that would make for quite an ill-assorted backdrop for Sri Aurobindos thought, a backdrop you will regard as unworthy of it. The planned Collection might be called Spiritual Adventures.
   We can try.

0 1969-02-05, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And especially this: the ruin of Science. There is a kind of force that wants I dont know if its to do something, or say something, or write but it seems to drive me in this direction, towards this problem.1
   Yes, it must evidently be the same force, because it wanted me to show you and explain to you, and you were WATCHING the work. I even made some reflections now and then, I would tell you, These figures (but I didnt call them figures, I dont know), this I put here because of that. I gave you explanations.

0 1969-02-08, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This morning, it went on for three hours like that. In reality, it stopped only when I started seeing people, because naturally And in the night its the same thing, it goes on. Its like a supereducation of the body, of the bodys CONSCIOUSNESS, with illustrations. This story Ive told of Bluebeard, its like an illustration to make the body understand clearly, because it then FELT the state of consciousness it was in at the time. And having felt that, it understoodit was as if put in front of an abyss. It said, How?! An abyss of unconsciousness. And its very general. So then, there was the vision of the past, the vision of the present condition, and a beginning of (gesture like a curve forward), the direction in which were moving, and a sort of opening (gesture in the distance). A vision ahead, far ahead, of the Harmony, here, which will manifest.
   But then, at a certain point, the body wondered, Who or what is it that takes pleasure in this immense unfolding which started with something so obscure and moves towards something so luminous? All of a sudden, the body wondered, Why? And then (Mother holds her hands open upward, in suspense) there was no answer In fact, it was made to feel, Not yet. You arent yet ready, not yet. You cant understand.

0 1969-08-09, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   It would straight away give an interesting direction. Auroville, the city of healing! That would be good!
   Nature will have to invent other means to get rid of the human surplus!

0 1969-08-16, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   This state From experience I know its the state in which ONE CAN CHANGE THE WORLD. One becomes a sort of instrument (which is even unaware of being an instrument, you understand), which is used for (gesture showing the flow of forces through the instrument) projecting forces (gesture in every direction from the central instrument). You know, the brain is far, far too smalleven when its very large, its too small to understand; thats why there is this blank in the mind. And the thing takes place.
   So then, you realize that for the purposes of the very small life you represent, it takes place automatically, and it simply makes you do every minute what you have to do, without without calculation, without speculation, without decision, without anything, like this (same gesture of flowing through the instrument).

0 1969-08-23, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   And to crown it all, whos going to live there and watch over the children but A.A.!! A. is the one who has learned in Switzerl and this new method to describe peoples characters, its he who brought it back, and it interests him furiously I just said to Y., I hope there wont be any accidents. Then she told me, Oh, later, when we have enough money, well make a garden in Auromodle, and then well do it with all the necessary precautions. I thought they should rather wait. But to get money, they have to do something (thats how it is: you must start doing something, and afterwards youre given the money to do it). Me, of course, I dont say anything (Mother crosses her fingers on her lips). Ive named her responsible for the direction of education in Auroville (Mother laughs heartily). She told me, by the way, that she wants to have a bank account in the name of Auroeducationdo you know why? Because those young Americans who came here on a visit (did you hear about them?), a dozen or so I saw them all: quite ordinary people. They asked me, Whats responsibility?! Things of that sort.
   Yes, you told me about them.

0 1969-08-30, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its amusing. I am trying my best to give a direction to the government here, and Indira is very open, but then the mass of the population says, She has become a Communist! while the Communists say, Its a bourgeois government! Its quite amusing, because it shows the exact attitude of the two parties towards Sri Aurobindos ideas!
   (silence)

0 1969-10-11, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But the interesting thing (its obvious, but) for those capable of rising to that Consciousness, its an interesting experience to have: as soon as you go beyond the region of even the highest human consciousness, once you are above, all spirit of revenge and punishment ABSOLUTELY disappearsabsolutely Its impossible to feel it. Its it seems to be a false way of reacting: instead of healing, you perpetuate the vibration, only changing its direction.
   But up above, its absolutely imperative: it doesnt exist, its impossible.

0 1969-11-22, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I was wondering in what direction that book should be: would it be a book about you, as I wrote the Adventure about Sri Aurobindo?
   Oh, no, not about me! Please, it makes my work so much more complicated when people think of me.
  --
   Very far ahead, one does see the possibility (as you yourself said) of a materialization, but between now and then, there is something. Lately Ive discovered a great deal of things while looking in that direction. I saw (I dont know if I noted that, I think I forgot to write it), I saw that with most people who have children almost without wanting it, just like that, for them its a sort of (naturally, many women desire to have children, but without even knowing what it means), for the VAST majority of educated people, that is to say, whose heads have been stuffed full of ideas about the faults one mustnt have, the qualities one must have and so on, all that they repressed in their beings, all the bad, pernicious instincts, it all comes out [in the child]. I remembered (I observed and saw), I remembered something I read very, very long ago; I think it was by Renan, he wrote somewhere that one should beware of parents who are good and very respectable, because (laughing) birth is a purge! And he also said: observe carefully the children of bad people, because those often are a reaction! So then, after that, after my experience, when I saw, I said to myself, But that man was right! For people, its a way of purging themselves. They throw out of themselves all that they dont want. There are some children here horrid! And thats it, you wonder, How come? Their parents are very good people. Its very interesting, because it gives the KEY of what should be doneby showing you what shouldnt be done, it gives you the key of what should be done.
   In that case, this prenatal education Y speaks of isnt a falsehood after all. Its something that may be true.

0 1969-11-29, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Only, its approach isnt the same. Its as if-curiously, as if the Force were from above downward and not from below upward, in the sense that the direction in the body is the same as when the Energy or Force descends into the body to use the organs; its the same thing: its the Force, the Consciousness that uses a certain power of understanding. Its like this (gesture from above downward), the origin isnt in the brain. Always, the Consciousness is always there (gesture above the head), even the consciousness that makes the body function. Only, the body felt it needed that, the power of mental analysis.
   But it came as an IMPERSONAL activity, quite impersonal, there is no sense whatsoever of even an individualization of thought, you understand? Thats not there. Its like an instrument being used. An instrument of organization, thats really it.

0 1969-12-13, #Agenda Vol 10, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   One can give the body an indication of the direction it should follow in order to be cured, but ninety-nine times out of a hundred, it wont do it.
   Yes, people call them miracles, but to me, they are incomplete miracles! In all the transfers (what I call transfer of power), at the time of the transfer, there is in the body a sort of disequilibrium, and if you arent VERY attentive, or if the disequilibrium is a bit stronger than usual, it results in a pain. If you make the mistake of taking the wrong attitude, the pain turns into an illness. But with the true attitude, the pain can be taken away in a few seconds that experience occurs almost every day, which is to say that Ive had it hundreds of times. And for others, its the same thingyou can do it for someone else. But all that you can do is to teach the body the way to cure itself but it doesnt learn! (Mother laughs)

0 1970-01-10, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   That underground passageway into the room People will enter some thirty feet away from the wall, at the foot of the urn. The urn will mark the starting point of the descent. Ill have to choose the exact direction. Then, later on, the urn might very well be INSIDE rather than outside the enclosure. So perhaps we could simply have a big wall all around, and then gardens. Between the surrounding wall and the building to be constructed, we can have gardens and the urn. And that wall will have an entrance (one or several ordinary gates), so that people will be able to move around in the garden.
   Then there will be certain conditions to be met before one is allowed to descend into the underground passage and emerge into the temple. It will have to be a bit initiatory: not quite like that, not just anyhow.

0 1970-01-17, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   (Satprem unrolls a plan) So you see, this is the outside, which would simply be like a shell. The inside is exactly as you saw it: that big bare carpet, and the ball at the center. What determined Paolos inspiration is that you said one would have to go underground and then to reemerge inside. So he had the idea of going deep down through a spiral staircase here, which would climb back up, and once here, there would be a series of staircases fanning out in every direction (in the lower part of the shell) and ending inside the temple itself. Then, the whole lower part would be in black marble while the higher part would be in simple white marble. The whole thing is like a big bud, you see, as if growing out of the earth.
   Image 3
  --
   So when one reaches the top of the stem, there are a number of staircases in every direction, so that one can emerge into the temple on any side. The center is absolutely bare, and all around is a sort of footbridge where one emerges from the depths: thats where all those staircases end. And everything bare. There will just be that big carpet bordered from corner to corner by kinds of footbridges. It will appear to be hanging. All white and smooth. Then there was the question of the twelve columns: Paolo said he felt the twelve columns were still an ancient symbol that wouldnt go very well with the shell, and instead, he suggested to have symbolically twelve supports, twelve bases of columns that would act as backrests.
   Image 4

0 1970-02-21, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its a bit difficult to definewords diminish a lot. It resembles what we call peace, but its luminous, with such an impression of (whats the word?) ease, well-being something Its not turned this way (gesture to oneself), its turned that way (gesture outward), and thats what makes it so hard to explain. Its not in the body, in itself, that it finds its well-being, its a well-being (gesture in every direction), a sort of radiating well-being, and so yes, something resembling a certitude theres no more anxiety is quite out of the question (question is quite out of the question!), but it is its more what we call positively well-being and certitude. Something inexpressible. Its so vast (in the body, thats the point), so vast Really it was like an offering for today.
   The whole day yesterday, the attack was very strong, as if to see whether the body would bear up. But it kept its trust and calm certitude (that it had the whole day long), and then it became something that was it, but Its hard to explain.

0 1970-03-18, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its in the direction of Matters perfect obedience to the Consciousness (the higher Consciousness); to the present experience, its the divine consciousness, but its very probably what Sri Aurobindo called the supramental consciousness. Because there must be (gesture in gradations) an indefinite ascent.
   Its a consciousness in which the sense of ego completely disappears, it does not exist. There isnt a person in front of others, you understand, receiving and sending influencesits no longer like that at all. Its a general play of forces (Mother makes a vast, fluid gesture) in which everyone spontaneously plays his part.

0 1970-05-20, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   France's minister of External Affairs who had come to Pondicherry in September 1947, drawn there by Baron (at the time governor of Pondicherry). Schumann met Mother and Sri Aurobindo and proposed the creation of a Franco-Indian cultural institute under Sri Aurobindo's direction.
   The Consul of France at Pondicherry, who is particularly hostile to the Ashram.

0 1970-05-23, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Does it result in a more precise direction in action, in what one has to do, or?
   No What I have noticed is that the vision, the reaction (that is, the way of looking at things, and especially the way of understanding) was completely different. Even now, day after day, all the old things in my body, all that is over. But then I see, for instance, when I read things by Sri Aurobindo, I understand them in a completely different way. So then I say to myself that, after all, Sri Aurobindo too was in contact with this consciousness (!) But the difference is that its very practical. For instance, when the government (either Indira or N. S.) sends me a question, This is the situation, what should we do?, previously I would have replied, I dont know. But now I see clearly, I tell them, Do like this and like that, there. And I dont give it any prior thought: its this Consciousness that sees.

0 1970-05-27, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   But are things to go in the direction of a materialisation of the subtle physical?
   No. That cant be materialized, it would be impossible! I think its a means of action, that is to say, it responds more clearly and strongly to the will. It seems more receptive. Its more supple, more expressive too. But materialized, it would appear like pure chaos.

0 1970-07-11, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   He says that the bones have become supple. The body has become cool; the soft chest moves; the hands join as in prayer; the legs revolve or spin round. Which means, I suppose, that the legs can move in every direction, since the bones have become pliable.
   (long silence)

0 1970-07-25, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Once I had a sort of perception which really was an experience, very strong, of this whole universal movement of return, and I had the impression or sensation that everything goes TOWARDS That, everything is FOR That, that its impossible for anything in all this to be against, for anything not to go in THAT direction, even when apparently it is against or twisted or dark or
   Yes, yes.

0 1970-10-07, #Agenda Vol 11, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   What could we do to spread it? It should be (gesture in every direction). A book isnt enough. We need something that would go everywhere.
   (Mother remains thoughtful)
   And its complete. Its the introduction, and its complete in itself. It should be translated, under your supervision, into English, German, Italian, and it should be published all at once in a newspaper one of those widely circulated newspapers. But the translations should be ready and it should go like this (simultaneous gesture in every direction).
   The translations, you can have them done here.

0 1971-01-23, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I feel like a fluid being who doesnt take up space and cant keep anything! (Mother laughs) Its like that. Whenever things come to me, they always come to be channeled to their proper placelet everything be in its place. I am just the site of the channeling (gesture in all directions): this here, that there, this there. How beautiful it would be if things were the way I see them, oh!
   In fact, Mother has spent a great part of her time in deep contemplation since the latest "accident."

0 1971-03-17, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   When you look at it close up, its really a force of destruction, because if you say to that point, But look, if you go in that direction, youre going to die, its your ruinit absolutely doesnt care.
   (Mother nods her head)

0 1971-04-28, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Nor do we know what kind of report Mother was getting from the trio of intriguers who were already quarreling over the direction and funds of Auroville. Certainly there was a lazy group in Auroville, but that group quickly disappeared on its own. Is it a "lack of authority" over the Aurovillians or over the trio, whose rivalries were beginning to arouse the mistrust of the Aurovillians?
   ***

0 1971-05-01, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, Mother. I dont understand very well the direction Im going in.
   Theres only one directiontoward the Divine. And as you know, its as much inside as outside, above as below. Everywhere. Its in this very world that we must find the Divine and cling to Himto Him alone, theres no other way. Its not here or there, its everywhere, but.
   (Mother goes into trance holding Satprems hands in her right hand while her left hand remains turned upward, in midair, then her arm slowly comes down to rest.)

0 1971-05-15, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Behind the jostle of temporary points of view and instant interests there are the Eternal Landmarks. To lose sight of them is to lose ones very way and steer onto the reefs of expediency and comfortable compromise upon which we shall founder a moment later. Behind the little frontal events is the greater tide of history and to lose sight of it is to lose ones direction and the golden thread that leads to our perfect fulfillment, be it individual or national. Those who have left their unique mark upon the labyrinth of history are the very ones who have seized the golden thread and affirmed the Greater History and the Greater Meaning against all the instant arguments and fleeting expediencies.
   The Greater History tells us that the whole earth is a single body with a single destiny, but that within that single destiny each part of the greater body, each nation, has its special role to play and its rare moments of choice when it must make the decisive gesture, its true gesture in the total movement of the great Eternal History. Each nation is a symbol. Each gesture of each nation potentially represents a little victory in the total victory or a little defeat in the total defeat. And sometimes the whole of our history is at stake at a symbolic point of the earth; and, a little gesture, a tiny turn to the right or left, has repercussions, either good or bad, down the ages and over the entire earth body.
  --
   The Great History tells us that India must again be one, and that particular current of history is so imperative that twice already Destiny has managed to put India before the possibility of her reunification. The first time was in 1965 when Pakistans foolish aggressiveness enabled India to counterattack and carry the battle right into the suburbs of Lahore and up to Karachi had she but had the courage to seize boldly her destiny. The hour was indeed for a decisive choice. The Mother declared categorically: India is fighting for the triumph of Truth, and She must fight until India and Pakistan become ONE again, for such is the truth of their being. At Tashkent, we yielded on the crest of a petty compromise which was to lead us into a second, more bloody and painful reef, Bangladesh. There too destiny graciously arranged to enable India to hasten to the aid of her massacred brethreneven the famous skyjacking incident of January4 was, as it were, arranged by the Grace so as to spare India from delaying her intervention until it was too late (or to spare her the shame of not intervening at all and allowing Pakistans planes to fly over her head loaded with weaponry and murderers to slaughter her brothers). But there again, yielding to the demands of the moment and to the small, shortsighted interests, we refused to accept the challenge of the Great direction of our History, and we now find ourselves on the brink of a new compromise which will lead us inevitably to a third and even more disastrous and bloody reef. For one day India must inevitably face that which twice she has fled. Only each time the conditions are more disastrous for her and for the worldperhaps so disastrous that the whole earth will even be engulfed in another general conflict, while the whole story could have been resolved at the little symbolic point that is Bangladesh, at the right hour, with the right gesture and a minimum of suffering.
   For let there be no doubt about it, the Bangladesh affair is not an Indian event, it is a world event. The division of India is not a local incident, it is a terrestrial Falsehood which must disappear if the division of the world is to disappear. And here again we hear the voice of Sri Aurobindo, six months before his passing, referring to yet another phenomenon which then seemed of such slight importance, so remote, a trifling local affair at the other end of the world: the invasion of South Korea in 1950, twenty-one years ago. And yet that small Korean symbol, like the small symbol of Bangladesh (or the one of Czechoslovakia in 1938), contained in seed the whole fatal course which is still carrying the world toward a sinister destiny: The affair of Korea, wrote Sri Aurobindo, is the first move in the Communist plan of campaign to dominate and take possession first of these northern parts and then of South East Asia as a preliminary to their manoeuvres with regard to the rest of the continentin passing, Tibet as a gate opening to India. Now, twenty-one years later, we see that Tibet and the whole of South East Asia have been swallowed up and the gate into India has truly been opened wide by the wound of the Pakistani Falsehoodalready, or very shortly, the Chinese are, or will be, in Khulna, some eighty miles from Calcutta, to help Yahya Khan to pacify Bengal. And Sri Aurobindo added, If they succeed, there is no reason why domination of the whole world should not follow by steps until they are ready to deal with America.
   This is where we are today. That which we want to avoid returns upon us with tenfold force. The hour for political calculation, for the pros and cons of our petty mathematics of expediency (which always goes awry) is past. The time has come to rediscover the Great direction of India, which is really the Great direction of the world, and to place our faith in the Spirit that guides her Destiny, rejecting petty fears of a phantom world opinion and doing away with the little supports which only lend support to the Enemy. Tomorrow America will perhaps resume her economic aid to Pakistan on the pretext of counteracting the Chinese presence. The Bangladesh slaughter will be honorably justified by a pseudoregime which will operate with the blessings of the international community. But one does not cheat the tide of history: for the third time our little compromises will crumble and we will find ourselves confronted with a terrible ordeal, its intensity nourished by our own successive failures in the past. The sooner not only India, but America and Russia too, understand the unreality of Pakistan and the magnitude of what is at stake at the borders of India, the sooner may the looming catastrophe be halted before it becomes totally and definitely irrevocable. One thing is certain, wrote Sri Aurobindo a few months before his passing, that if there is too much shilly-shallying and if America gives up now her defence of Korea [we could say even more: the defense of Bangladesh] she may be driven to yield position after position until it is too late: at one point or another she will have to stand and face the necessity of drastic action even if it leads to war.
   For the battle of India is the battle of the world. This is where the worlds tragic destiny is brewing, or its last-minute burst of hope into a new world of Truth and Light, for it is said that the deepest darkness lies nearest the most luminous light.

0 1971-08-04, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I am deep in transformation, thats why Ive lost control. What I could do before I cant do anymore. I see, I clearly see the direction it will take, but its not there yet. So now I am good-for-nothing.
   My voice is completely ruined.

0 1971-10-13, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   So you dont know what to do. In practical life, you dont know what to do. You can turn in every direction and in every direction its false.
   Yes, its false.

0 1971-10-30, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I often think of the next book I should write, and I wonder in what direction it will be?
   (Mother goes within for a long time, then a smile spreads over her lips)
  --
   How much time will it take? I dont know. How many experiences will it take? I dont know. But now the direction is clear. The direction is clear.
   Mon petit, youve given me the most marvelous gift today that anyone could give!

0 1971-12-25, #Agenda Vol 12, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Its word-painting, but its in that direction.
   This creations goal is that Consciousness of the Infinite, the Eternal, which is omnipotent Infinite, Eternal, Omnipotent (which our religions have called God: for us, with respect to life, its the Divine)Infinite and Eternal, All-Powerful outside of time: each individual particle possessing that Consciousness; each individual particle containing that same Consciousness.

0 1972-02-09, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   The psychic consciousness has always been there, controlling and guiding the being. All the impressions, everything was referred to it, like this (gesture of placing something before a spotlight), so it would give the true direction. And the physical, for its part, is sort of constantly attentive to the Divine Command.
   And that was constant, constanteven BEFORE coming here. It was so when I arrived here (long, long ago). And it has remained unchanged. Only recently did I have the experience [of the nonunified consciousness], for a few hours one night, two or three hoursit was horrible, really, it seemed like hell. It was to make me touch, to make me grasp the condition people live in. Imagine when the psychic is no longer there.

0 1972-03-10, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Instead of a combination where each one has his place within a harmonious unity, instead of that, everyone pulls in his own direction. The real progress to be made is a moral one.
   You have hit the point: lack of unity is the cause of all the difficulties.
  --
   You see, we preach Unity, we say that humanity must be one, that all efforts must join together for the general progress, for the advent of the Supramental but everyone pulls as hard as he can in his own direction. Thats the situation.
   So I wanted to tell all of you, Practice what you say, or you will cease to exist.

0 1972-04-08, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Yes, I know, I must change the direction of my life. The time has come. Soon nothing will keep me from doing it not even pseudo-duty to this one or that one.
   I would like, I want to work with you to pursue an idealan ideal that fills my whole being with enthusiasm.

0 1972-12-20, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Ive often wondered about the right inner movement needed to go into that other region. There are basically two possible movements: a movement inwards in the direction of the soul, as it were, and a movement of annihilation of the individuality, in which you are in a sort of impersonal vastness.
   Both are needed.

0 1973-01-13, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I feel I am being pulled in opposite directions by the old world and the new.
   (Mother shakes her head and plunges in)

0 1973-03-17, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   I wanted to know if personally if personally I was in the right direction.
   I will take a look.

0 1973-04-14, #Agenda Vol 13, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
   Seven years laterit took me seven yearsone day in September 1980, as I was passing a small local pharmacy on my way back from Madras, I decided to get to the bottom of it. I went in, asked for SIQUIL, pulled out the directions from the box and read, dumbfounded:
   Studies have revealed that over-sedation is not always necessary to benefit such psychotic symptoms as agitation, delusions, hallucinations or delirium. SIQUIL greatly simplifies home management of emotionally deranged patients, many of whom might otherwise previously have been hospitalized. These patients adopt a more realistic behavior, become less of a burden to their families and are more easily approached for training purposes and eventual rehabilitation. SIQUIL is especially indicated in the treatment of severe acute and chronic mental disorders, such as schizophrenia, mania, depression, delirium, senile psychoses and psychoses caused by organic brain disease.

02.01 - A Vedic Story, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The search party consists of Varuna, Mitra and Yama. We shall presently understand the sense of the selection. They look about here and therein ten directions, it is mentioned and at last spot the defaulting god hiding within a huge thick strong cloak or caul. They hail him and ask him to come out and take up his charge. Agni refuses: he says he is not competent to undertake the burden; indeed that is why he ran away and they must not force him. The gods explain, entreat, encourage Agni. They say and assure him that no harm will come to him, rather he will flourish and prosper and become immortal. He is mighty and he will become almighty as he takes up his work and proceeds with it. Agni accepts in the end and marches out with the gods.
   What does this parable mean? First of all then we must know what Sacrificea Vedic sacrificeis. Sacrifice symbolises the cosmic labour, the march of the universe towards its goal, the conquest of Light over Darkness, the ascent of manhood to godhead, the flaming rise and progress of consciousness to its supreme expression and embodiment. It is the release out of Inconscience and Unconsciousness to consciousness and finally into the super-consciousness.

02.01 - The World War, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   "Since the end of the Middle Ages, conquerors did harm perhaps to civilization, but they never claimed to bring it into question. They ascribed their excesses and crimes to motives of necessity, but never dreamed for a moment to hold them up as exemplary actions on which subject nations were called upon to fashion their morality, their code, their gospel.. . Since the dawn of modern times the accidents of military history in Europe have never meant for her the end of her most precious spiritual and moral values and a sudden annulment of all the work done by the past generations in the direction of mutual respect, equity, goodwillor, to put all into a single word, in the direction of humanity."
   Modern thinkers do not speak of the Asura the Demon or the Titanalthough the religiously minded sometimes refer to the Anti-Christ; but the real, the inner significance of the terms, is lost to a mind nurtured in science and empiricism; they are considered as more or less imaginative symbols for certain undesirable qualities of nature and character. Yet some have perceived and expressed the external manifestation and activities of the Asura in a way sufficient to open men's eyes to the realities involved. Thus they have declared that the present war is a conflict between two ideals, to be sure, but also that the two ideals are so different that they do not belong to the same plane or order; they belong to different planes and different orders. On one side the whole endeavour is to bring man down from the level to which he has arisen in the course of evolution to something like his previous level and to keep him imprisoned there. That this is really their aim, the protagonists and partisans themselves have declared frankly and freely and loudly enough, without any hesitation or reservation. Hitler's 'Mein Kampf' has become the Scripture of the New Order; it has come with a more categorical imperative, a more supernal authority than the Veda, the Bible or the Koran.

02.02 - The Message of the Atomic Bomb, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   But a new situation has arisen for some time past. The last Great War (World War No. I) was crucial in many ways in the life of humanity. It opened a new direction of man's growth, opened and then closed also apparently. I am referring to the tragedy of the League of Nations. That was an attempt on the part of man (and Nature) to lift the inner life and consciousness to the level of the outer achievements. The attempt failed. Man could not rise to the height demanded of him. Now the second World War became logically more devastating and shattering; it has given the go-by to all ethical standards and codes of honour. The poison gas was not used not because of any moral restraint or disinclination, but because of practical and utilitarian considerations. The Atom Bomb, however, has spoken the word.
   That word is a warning that unless man changes, becomes master of himself, he cannot be truly master of the world. He cannot comm and the forces he has unleashed unless he has comm and over his own nature. The external immensity, the bloated mass that his physical attainments are, unless armoured and animated by an inner growth, will crash by its own weight. The mammoth, the mastodon, the huge pachyderms, in spite of, rather because of their inordinately one-sided growth could not stand the demand of life and perished. Likewise man will not possess the world but the world will engulf and devour him in its aboriginal hunger of unconsciousness, if he does not take a right-about turn and declare his conversion. The Frankenstein that man has raised can no longer be met by merely human devicesreason and morals but by a higher discovery and initiation.

02.03 - An Aspect of Emergent Evolution, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Bertr and Russell made a move in the right direction with a happy suggestion which unhappily he had not the courage to follow up. Mind (and Life), he says, are certainly emergents out of Matter; that is because the reality is neither, it is a neutral stuff out of which all emergents issue. The conclusion is logical and sensible. But as he was initially bound to his position of scientific scepticism, he could not further question or probe the neutral and stopped on the fence.
   The problem in reality, however, is simple enough, if we allow the facts to speak for themselves and do not hesitate to accept the conclusions to which they inevitably lead. After Matter came Life; that is to say, out of Matter came Life, and that can only be because Life was involved in Matter. And if such a conclusion makes of Matter a potentially living thing, we shall have to accept the position. In the same way, Mind that followed Life came out of Life, because Mind was involved in Life; and if that means endowing Life with a secret mentality, well, there is no help for it. And if, as a natural consequence of the two premises we have to admit the existence of some kind of mind or consciousness secreted in Mattera minimal psychic life, according to McDougall that would be but what the Upanishads always declared: Creation -is a vibration of consciousness, and all things and all kinds of existence are only forms and modalities of consciousness.

02.05 - Federated Humanity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The present war puts the problem in the most acute way. Shall it be still a nation or shall it be a "commonwealth" that must henceforth be the dynamic unit? Today it is evident, it is a fact established by the sheer force of circumstances that isolated, self-sufficient nations are a thing of the past, even like the tribes of the Hebrews or the clans of the Hittites. A super-nation, that is to say, a commonwealth of nations is the larger unit that Nature is in travail to bring forth and establish. That is the inner meaning of the mighty convulsions shaking and tearing humanity today. The empire of the pastan empire of the Roman type and patternwas indeed in its own way an attempt in the direction of a closely unified larger humanity; but it was a crude and abortive attempt, as Nature's first attempts mostly are. For the term that was omitted in that greater synthesis was self-determination. Centralisation is certainly the secret of a large organic unity, but not over-centralisation; for this means the submission and sacrifice of all other parts of at! organism to the undue demands and interests of only one organ which is considered as the centre, the metropolis. Such a system dries up in the end the vitality of the organism: the centre, sucking in all nourishment from the outlying members suffers from oedema and the whole eventually decays and disintegrates. That is the lesson the Roman Empire teaches us.
   The autocratic empire is dead and gone: we need not fear its shadow or ghostly regeneration. But the ideal which inspired it in secret and justified its advent and reign is a truth that has still its day. The drive of Nature, of the inner consciousness of humanity was always to find a greater and larger unit for the collective life of mankind. That unit today has to be a federation of free peoples and nations. In the place of nations, several such commonwealths must now form the broad systems of the body politic of human collectivity. That must give the pattern of its texture, the outline of its configuration the shape of things to come. Such unit is no longer a hypothetical proposition, a nebula, a matter of dream and imagination. It has become a practical necessity; first of all, because of the virtual impossibility of any single nation, big or small, standing all by itself alonemilitary and political and economic exigencies demand inescapable collaboration with others, and secondly, because of the still stricter geographical compulsion the speed and ease of communication has made the globe so small and all its parts so interdependent that none can possibly afford to be exclusive and self-centred.
   The organization of this greater and larger unit is the order of the day. It does not seem possible at this stage to go straight to the whole of humanity at large and make of it one single indivisible entity, obliterating all barriers of race and nation. An intermediate step is still necessary even if that remains the final end. Nationhood has been a helper in that direction; it is now a bar. And yet an indiscriminate internationalism cannot meet the situation today, it overshoots the mark. The march of events and circumstances prescribe that nations should combine to form groups or, as they say in French, societies of nations. The combination, however, must be freely determined, as voluntary partnership in a common labour organisation for common profit and achievement. This problem has to be solved first, then only can the question of nationalism or other allied knots be unravelled. Nature the Sphinx has set the problem before us and we have to answer it here and now, if humanity is to be saved and welded together into a harmonious whole for a divine purpose.
   ***

02.06 - Boris Pasternak, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Pasternak's tragedy runs on the same line. Progress and welfare of the group, of humanity at large is an imperative necessity and the collective personality does move in that direction. But it moves over the sufferings, over the corpses of individuals composing the collectivity. The individuals, in one sense, are indeed the foci, the conscious centres that direct and impel the onward march, but they have something in them which is over and above the dynamism of physical revolution. There is an inner aspiration and preoccupation whose object is other than outer or general progress and welfare. There is a more intimate quest. The conflict is there. The human individual, in one part of his being, is independent and separate from the society in which he lives and in another he is in solidarity with the rest.
   The freedom of the individual is a double-edged swordit is a help to progress, it is also a bar. Individuals, great individuals, are the spearhead of progressive movements. They initiate new and advanced beginnings. But if freedom means whims and caprices, too great a stress on personal likes and dislikes, then that brings about a deviation in the straight path, or rather, obstacles in the forward march. And the advancing time-spirit or world-spirit has to push them and cast away. There is also the other side of the shield. Collectivity, like the individual, may also be a help as well as a bar. It means the enlargement and diffusion of the individual's gain, a sharing in wide' commonalty, an element or asset of human progress; it may also hamstring, for it is normally conservative and averse to movement and progress.

02.06 - The Kingdoms and Godheads of the Greater Life, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  And crying for a direction in the void
  Like blind souls looking for the selves they lost

02.08 - Jules Supervielle, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   His poetry is very characteristic and adds almost a new vein to the spirit and manner of French poetry. He has bypassed the rational and emotional tradition of his adopted country, brought in a mystic way of vision characteristic of the East. This mysticism is not however the normal spiritual way but a kind of oblique sight into what is hidden behind the appearance. By the oblique way I mean the sideway to enter into the secret of things, a passage opening through the side. The mystic vision has different ways of approachone may look at the thing straight, face to face, being level with it with a penetrating gaze, piercing a direct entry into the secrets behind. This frontal gaze is also the normal human way of knowing and understanding, the scientific way. It becomes mystic when it penetrates sufficiently behind and strikes a secret source of another light and sight, that is, the inner sight of the soul. The normal vision which I said is the scientist's vision, stops short at a certain distance and so does not possess the key to the secret knowledge. But an aspiring vision can stretch itself, drill into the surface obstacle confronting it, and make its contact with the hidden ray behind. There is also another mystic way, not a gaze inward but a gaze upward. The human intelligence and the higher brain consciousness seeks a greater and intenser light, a vaster knowledge and leaps upward as it were. There develops a penetrating gaze towards heights up and above, to such a vision the mystery of the spirit slowly reveals itself. That is Vedantic mysticism. There is a look downward also below the life-formation and one enters into contact with forces and beings and creatures of another type, a portion of which is named Hell or Hades in Europe, and in India Ptl and rastal. But here we are speaking of another way, not a frontal or straight movement, but as I said, splitting the side and entering into it, something like opening the shell of a mother of pearl and finding the pearl inside. There is a descriptive mystic: the suprasensuous experience is presented in images and feeling forms. That is the romantic way. There is an explanatory mysticism: the suprasensuous is set in intellectual or mental terms, making it somewhat clear to the normal understanding. That is I suppose classical mysticism. All these are more or less direct ways, straight approaches to the mystic reality. But the oblique is differentit is a seeking of the mind and an apprehension of the senses that are allusive, indirect, that move through contraries and negations, that point to a different direction in order just to suggest the objective aimed at. The Vedantic (and the Scientific too) is the straight, direct, rectilinear gaze the Vedantin says, May I look at the Sun with a transfixed gaze'; whether he looks upward or inward or downward. But the modem mystic is of a different mould. He has not that clear absolute vision, he has the apprehension of an aspiring consciousness. His is not religious poetry for that matter, but it is an aspiration and a yearning to perceive and seize truth and reality that eludes the senses, but seems to be still there. We shall understand better by taking a poem of his as example. Thus:
   Alter Ego

02.09 - The Way to Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Common love, common labour and, above all, as the great French thinker, Ernest Renan,1 pointed out, common suffering that is the cement which welds together the disparate elements of a nationa nation is not formed otherwise. A nation means peoples differing in race and religion, caste and creed and even language, fused together into a composite but indivisible unit. Not pact nor balancing of interests nor sharing of power and profit can permanently combine and unify conflicting groups and collectivities. Hindus and Muslims, the two major sections that are at loggerheads today in India, must be given a field, indeed more than one field, where they can, work together; they must be made to come in contact with each other, to coalesce and dovetail into each other in as many ways and directions as possible. Instead of keeping them separate in water-tight compartments, in barred cages, as it were, lest they pounce upon each other like wild beasts, it would be wiser to throw them together; let them brea the the same air, live the same life, share the same troubles, the same difficulties, solve the same problems. That is how they will best understand, appreciate and even love each other, become comrades and companions, not rivals and opponents.
   Ernest Renan: "Qu'est-ce qu'une nation?"

02.11 - New World-Conditions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The geographical revolution has led inevitably to the economic revolution which is not less momentous, pregnant with prophecies of brave new things. We all know that the modern world was ushered in with the industrial revolution. As a result of this new dispensation, world and society gradually divided into two camps: on one side, the industrialists and on the other the agriculturists, or, in a general way, the possessors of raw materials. The Imperialists formed the first group, while the latter, dominated by these, belonged to the Colonies. The "backward" countries and people who could not take to industry, but continued the old system became a helpless prey to the industrial nations. Africa and Asia and the South American countries came under the domination of European nations, rather the West European Nations: they became the suppliers of raw materials and also the market for finished products. Also within the same country occupying the imperial status, there came a division, a class division, as it is called. A few industrial magnates or trusts (France had its famous Two-Hundred Families) monopolised all the wealth, became the top-dog, the "Haves", the others were mere hewers of wood and drawers of water, serfs and slaves, the "Have-Nots". Exploitation was-the motto of the age. The "exploiters" and the "exploited", this trenchant duality was the whole truth of the social scheme and that summed up the entire malady of the collective life. Then came the First World War and the Bolshevik Revolution which brought to a head the great crisis and initiated the change-over to new conditions. The French Revolution called up from the rear of social ranks and set in front the Third Estate and gradually formed and crystallised, with the aid of the Industrial Revolution, what is known as the Bourgeoisie. The Russian Revolution went a step farther. It dislodged the bourgeoisie and installed the Fourth Estate, the proletariate, as the head and front of society, its centre of power and governmental authority. In the meantime there was developing in the bourgeois society, too, a kind of socialism which aimed at the uplift and remoulding of the working class into a total social power. But the process could not, go far enough. The Industrial League, no doubt, began to release some of its monopolies, delegate some of its power and authority to the Proletariate and sought an armistice and entente; but still it is they who wielded the real power and gave to society the tone and impress of their characteristic authority. The Russian experiment made a bold departure and attempted to build up a new society from the very bottom: the manual labourers, they who produce with the sweat of their brow and make a society living and prosperous must also be its rulers. Now whatever the success or failure in regard to the perfect ideal, the thing achieved is solid; certain forces have been released that are working inexorably in and through even contrary appearances, they have come to stay and cannot be negatived. The urge, for example, towards a more equitable distribution of wealth and wealth-producing implements; an even balancing of economic values has been growing and gathering strength: it has become an asset of the body social. Instead of an unfettered competition between rival agencies, the mad drive for a jealous and closely guarded appropriation (rather, mis-appropriation) by private cartels, there has arisen an inevitable need for a unitary or co-operative control under a common direction, whether it be that of the state or some other body equally representing the common interest. In other words, the principle of co-operation has now become a living reality, a thing of practical politics. All effort towards progress and amelioration, cure of social ills and regaining of health and strength must lie in that direction: anything going the contrary way shall perforce be out of tune with the Time-Spirit and can cause only confusion, bring in stagnation or even regression.
   First of all, the colonies, which mean practically the Eastern hemisphere, can no longer be regarded, even by those who would very much wish to, as the field of exploitation, the granary of raw materials or the dumping ground of finished articles. Industrialism, the spirit and urge of it at least, has reached these places too: the exploiters themselves have been instrumental In bringing it about. The growing industrialism in countries so long held in subjection or tutelage, as safe preserves, need not necessarily mean a further spell of keen competition. If we look closely, we see things moving in a different direction. It is self-evident that all countries do not and cannot grow or manufacture all things with equal ease and facility. Countries are naturally complementary or supplementary to each other with regard to their raw produce or industrial manufacture. And an inevitable give and take, mutual understanding and help must follow such an alignment of economic forces.
   It must also be noted that all countries need not and cannot have the same pattern of economic life, even that of a successful economic life. A vast country like India, with the manifold resources of a whole continent, can at once be industrial and agriculturalmodern America, to some extent, is an example of this type. She can follow both the lines of economic development with equal vigour and success. And in the midst of an intensive and extensive agricultural and industrial occupation, there may be still room for the age-long, old-world cottage industry, for the individual artisan or craftsman whose God-given hand may always give to things an added value beyond the reach of the mere machine.
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   International co-operation has become a thing of immediate necessity, of practical utility. We met in San Francisco, not out of the spirit of sheer idealism or altruism but because we were forced to it. Circumstances have come to such a pass that even local needs, natural aspirations can be best met and served in and through international understanding. It is the solution of international problems, the amelioration of international relations first that would more easily lead to the solution of national problems than the other way round, which was perhaps the normal direction of the world-forces even a decade or two ago. Such world-organisations as the UNRRA or even the Red Cross, although they do not go deep enough into the root problems and are not powerful enough to mould or control world-forces, appearing more or less as charitable institutions, are still concrete expressions of an urgent immediate demand for mutuality and solidarity among the nations, even between warring nations.
   The relation between India and Britain is peculiar and has an especial significance. It is not enough to say that Britain is the imperialist overlord and India the subject underling. The two stand for two world-forces and their relation is symbolic. The difficulty that will be solved between them will be a world-difficulty solved; what they achieve in common will be a world-achievement. India means nations in bondage aspiring to be free, peoples living in conditions of want and weakness and internecine quarrel, still struggling towards a harmonious and prosperous organised life; she is the cry of the down-trodden demanding her share of earth's air and lightlife-room. Britain represents the other side, the free people, organised, strong and successful. Neither America nor Russia fills this role. America is young; she has a wonderful grasp over life's externals; none can compare or compete with her in the ordering and marshalling of an efficient pattern of life, but what escapes her is the more abiding and deeper truth of life and living. Russia started to create on totally new foundations, indeed the outer aspect here has changed very much. But the forces that ruled Russia's past do not seem to have changed to the same extent. In spite of the rise of the proletariate, in spite of all local autonomies, it is doubtful if the true breath of freedom is blowing over the country, if the country is creating out of a deeper soul-vision. Life movement in either of these two countries seems to have a rigid mould; that is because they seek to build or reform, that is to say, fabricate life, in other words, they impose upon life a pattern conceived by notions and prejudgments, even perhaps idio-syncracies. The British are more amenable to change, precisely because they do not force a change and do not know they are changing. The British Empire is more loosely formed, its units have more freedom than is the case with other Empires built upon the pattern of the extremely centralised Roman Empire. Truly it has the spirit of a commonwealth. The spirit of decentralisation and federation that is increasing today and has seized even old-world Empires the Dutch, the French, the Russianhas come largely from the British example. Therefore, the unravelling of the Britain and India tangle would mean the solution of a world-problem. These two countries have been put together precisely because the solution is possible here and an ideal solution for all others to profit by.

02.12 - The Ideals of Human Unity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Nationhood, however, developed into such a firm, solid, self-conscious and selfishly aggressive entity that it has now become almost a barrier to a further enlargement of the unit towards a still greater and wider unification of mankind. But nature cannot be baulked, its straight urge hampered; it takes to by-ways and indirect routes and roundabout channels for its fulfilment. On three different lines a greater and larger unification of mankind has been attempted that goes beyond the unification brought about by the ideal of the country or people or nation. First, the political, that leads to the formation of Empires. But the faults and errors in this type of larger unit have been made very evident. It acts as a steam-roller, no doubt, crushing out and levelling parochial differences and local narrownesses; but it also means the overgrowth of a central organismcalled the metropolisat the expense of other member organisms forming part of the larger collectivity, viz., colonies and dependencies and subject races, which must in the end bring about a collapse and disruption of the whole structure. The Roman Empire was the typical example of this experiment. Next, there was what can be called the racial line. Many attempts have been made in this direction, but nothing very successful has taken shape. Pan-Slavism, Pan-Arabism, Pan-Jewry are some of the expressions of this movement. It has the fatal fault of a basis that is uncertain and doubtful: for a pure race is a myth and in modern conditions the cry must necessarily be a cry in the wilderness. Many races and peoples have in the course of human history been thrown together, they have to live together, are compelled to lead a common social, political, economic and cultural life. That indeed was the genesis of nationhood. The hegemony of a so-called Nordic race over the world was one of the monsters produced by this attempt, a reductio ad absurdum of the principle.
   The third is the religious principle. Religion, that is to say, institutional religion has also sought to unify mankind on a larger basis, as large indeed as the world itself. The aim of Christendom, of Islam was frankly a conquest of the whole human race for the one jealous Lord. Buddhism and Hinduism did not overtly or with a set purpose attempt any such worldwide proselytism, but their influence and actual working had almost a similar effect:at least in the case of the former, it was like a flood throwing down many local boundaries, overflooding distant countries, and peoples, giving them all one unified religious life and culture. But here too we meet the same objectionable feature as there is in the attempt at unity through the racial principle. For religious imperialism cannot succeed in unifying humanity, as amply demonstrated by the Roman Catholic Church; and like political imperialism it was more or less an experiment in the line, effecting nothing beyond a moral atmosphere. Even a federation of religions, contemplated by some idealists, seems hardly a practicable proposition; for it is only a mental conception and has no compelling vital force in it. At best it is only a sign-post, a pointer to the goal Nature and humanity have been endeavouring to evolve and realise.

03.01 - Humanism and Humanism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The religious or Christian humanism of the West is in its essential nature the pagan and profane humanism itself, at least an extension of the same. The sympathy that a St. Francis feels for his leprous brother is, after all, a human feeling, a feeling that man has for man; and even his love for the bird or an inanimate object is also a very human feeling, transferred to another receptacle and flowing in another direction. Itis a play of the human heart, only refined and widened; there is no change in kind.
   It goes without saying that in the East too there is no lack of such sympathy or fellow-feeling either in the saint or in the man of the world. Still there is a difference. And the critics have felt it, if not understood it rightly. The Indian bhutadaya and Christian charity do not spring from the same source I do not speak of the actual popular thing but of the idealeven when their manner of expression is similar or the same, the spirit and the significance are different. In the East the liberated man or the man aiming at liberation may work for the good and welfare of the world or he may not; and when he does work, the spirit is not that of benevolence or philanthropy.
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   There is, however, a type of humanism that is specially known in Indiait is not human humanism, but, as it is called, divine humanism. That is to say, the human formula is maintained, but a new significance, a transcendent connotation is put into it. The general contour of the instrumentation is preserved, but the substance is transmuted. The brain, the heart and the physical consciousness not only change their direction, but their very nature and character. And the Divine himself is conceived of as such a Human Person for the norm of the human personality is an eternal verity in the divine consciousness.
   Esoteric Christianity also has given us the conception of the Human Divine; but it is somewhat different from the Vaishnava revelation which has found rather the Divine Human. In other words, as I have already said, one has brought down the divinity nearer to the human appreciation and has humanised it; in the other the human has been uplifted and made into an archetypal reality where the human terms have been more or less symbols and figures having not merely human but a supra-human significance. The entire Vaishnava Lila passes not on this earth at all, but eternally in the eternal world of consciousness cinmayabehind all earthly (and human) manifestation and expression.

03.01 - The New Year Initiation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Hence the Mother gives the direction that though external lapses may be natural to our external nature, now that our inner consciousness has awakened, the vision and the earnestness to see and recognise our mistakes have developedassuming that this much of development has taken place in uswe must awake to the situation and be on the alert, we must bring such control to bear upon our vital impulses, upon our nervous centres as will prevent, for good and all, errors and stupidities from upsurging again and invading our physical self and our field of action. When we have reached this stage, we have acquired the capacity to ascend to another level of consciousness. It is then that we can lay the foundations of a new order in the worldit is then that along with the purification, the achievement will begin to take on a material form.
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03.02 - Aspects of Modernism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The consciousness of yesterday was a unilateral movement. It rose up high and descended deep into the truth of things, but mostly along a single line. In the horizontal direction also, when it travelled, it effected a linear movement. The consciousness of today is complex and composite; it has lost much of the vertical movement; it does not very easily soar or dive, precisely because it has spread itself out in a multitude of horizontal movements. Our modern consciousness is outward gazing and extensive; it has not the in-gathering and intensive character of the old-world consciousness; but what it has lost in depth and height, it has sought to make up in width.
   Simplicity and intensity, sublimity and profundity were the most predominant qualities of man's achievement in the past; what characterises human endeavour in the present is its wideness, richness, complexity. It can also be noted that the corruptions of these qualities likewise mark out their respective ages. Fanaticism, for example, the corruption of a good and noble thing, fidelity, means a unilateral mind carried to its extreme; it is a characteristic product of the middle ages in the West as in the East. The modern world in its stead has given us dilettantism and cynicism, corruption of largeness and catholicity.
   Consciousness has two primary movements. In one it penetrates, enters straight into the heart of things; in the other it spreads out, goes about and round the object. The combination of the two powers is a rarity; ordinarily man follows the one to the exclusion of the other. The modern age in its wide curiosity has neglected the penetrative and intensive movement and is therefore marred by superficiality. It is eager to go over the entire panorama of creation at one glance, if that is possible, to have a telescopic view of things; but it has been able to take in only the surface, the skin, the crust. Even the entrance into the world of atoms and cellsof protons and electrons, of chromosomes and genesis not really a penetrative or intensive movement. It is only another form of the movement of pervasion or extension: it is still a going abroad, only on another line, in a different direction, but always fundamentally on the same horizontal plane. The microscope is only an inverted telescope. Our instruments are the external mind and senses and these move laterally and have not the power to leap on to a different level of vision. The earlier ages of mankind, narrow and circumscribed in many respects, possessed nevertheless that intensive and in-gathering movement, which is a kind of movement in the fourth dimension; it was a sixth sense leading into the Behind or Beyond of things.
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03.02 - Yogic Initiation and Aptitude, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   In a general way we may perhaps say, without gross error, that every man has the right to become a poet, a scientist or a politician. But when the question rises in respect of a particular person, then it has to be seen whether that person has a natural ability, an inherent tendency or aptitude for the special training so necessary for the end in view. One cannot, at will, develop into a poet by sheer effort or culture. He alone can be a poet who is to the manner born. The same is true also of the spiritual life. But in this case, there is something more to take into account. If you enter the spiritual path, often, whether you will or not, you come in touch with hidden powers, supra-sensible forces, beings of other worlds and you do not know how to deal with them. You raise ghosts and spirits, demons and godsFrankenstein monsters that are easily called up but not so easily laid. You break down under their impact, unless your adhr has already been prepared, purified and streng thened. Now, in secular matters, when, for example, you have the ambition to be a poet, you can try and fail, fail with impunity. But if you undertake the spiritual life and fail, then you lose both here and hereafter. That is why the Vedic Rishis used to say that the ear then vessel meant to hold the Soma must be properly baked and made perfectly sound. It was for this reason again that among the ancients, in all climes and in all disciplines, definite rules and regulations were laid down to test the aptitude or fitness of an aspirant. These tests were of different kinds, varying according to the age, the country and the Path followedfrom the capacity for gross physical labour to that for subtle perception. A familiar instance of such a test is found in the story of the aspirant who was asked again and again, for years together, by his Teacher to go and graze cows. A modern mind stares at the irrelevancy of the procedure; for what on earth, he would question, has spiritual sadhana to do with cow-grazing? In defence we need not go into any esoteric significance, but simply suggest that this was perhaps a test for obedience and endurance. These two are fundamental and indispensable conditions in sadhana; without them there is no spiritual practice, one cannot advance a step. It is absolutely necessary that one should carry out the directions of the Guru without question or complaint, with full happiness and alacrity: even if there comes no immediate gain one must continue with the same zeal, not giving way to impatience or depression. In ancient Egypt among certain religious orders there was another kind of test. The aspirant was kept confined in a solitary room, sitting in front of a design or diagram, a mystic symbol (cakra) drawn on the wall. He had to concentrate and meditate on that figure hour after hour, day after day till he could discover its meaning. If he failed he was declared unfit.
   Needless to say that these tests and ordeals are mere externals; at any rate, they have no place in our sadhana. Such or similar virtues many people possess or may possess, but that is no indication that they have an opening to the true spiritual life, to the life divine that we seek. Just as accomplishments on the mental plane,keen intellect, wide studies, profound scholarship even in the scriptures do not entitle a man to the possession of the spirit, even so capacities on the vital plane,mere self-control, patience and forbearance or endurance and perseverance do not create a claim to spiritual realisation, let alone physical austerities. In conformity with the Upanishadic standard, one may not be an unworthy son or an unworthy disciple, one may be strong, courageous, patient, calm, self-possessed, one may even be a consummate master of the senses and be endowed with other great virtues. Yet all this is no assurance of one's success in spiritual sadhana. Even one may be, after Shankara, a mumuksu, that is to say, have an ardent yearning for liberation. Still it is doubtful if that alone can give him liberation into the divine life.
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   Now what exactly is this wonderful thing? This power that brings into being the non-being, realises the impossible? Whose is this Call, from where does it come? It is none other than the call of your own inmost being, of your secret self. It is the categorical imperative of the Divine seated within your heart. Indeed, the first dawning of the spiritual life means the coming forward, the unveiling of this inner being. The ignorant and animal life of man persists so long as the inner being remains in the background, away from the dynamic life, so long as man is subject to the needs and impulses of his mind and life and body. True, through the demands and urges of this lower complex, it is always the inner being that gains and has its dictates carried out and is always the secret lord and enjoyer; but that is an indirect effect and it is a phenomenon that takes place behind the veil. The evolution, in other words, of the inner or psychic being proceeds through many and diverse experiencesmental, vital and physical. Its consciousness, on the one hand, grows, that is, enlarges itself, becomes wider and wider, from what was infinitesimal it moves towards infinity, and on the other, streng thens, intensifies itself, comes up from behind and takes its stand in front visibly and dynamically. Man's true individual being starts on its career of evolution as a tiny focus of consciousness totally submerged under the huge surface surge of mind and life and body consciousness. It stores up in itself and assimilates the essence of the various experiences that the mind and life and body bring to it in its unending series of incarnations; as it enriches itself thus, it increases in substance and potency, even like fire that feeds upon fuels. A time comes when the pressure of the developed inner being upon the mind and life and body becomes so great that they begin to lose their aboriginal and unregenerate freedom the freedom of doing as they like; they have now to pause in their unreflecting career, turn round, as it were, and imbibe and acquire the habit of listening to the deeper, the inner voice, and obey the direction, the comm and of the Call. This is the Word inviolate (anhata-vn) of which the sages speak; this is also referred to as the still small voice, for indeed it is scarcely audible at present amidst the din and clamour of the wild surges of the body and life and mind consciousness.
   Now, when this call comes clear and distinct, there is no other way for the man than to cut off the old moorings and jump into the shore less unknown. It is the categorical demand of such an overwhelming experience that made the Indian spirant declare:
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   Mantra or initiation, in its essence, is nothing else than contacting the inner being. In our Path, at least, there is no other rite or rule, injunction or ceremony. The only thing needed is to awake to the consciousness of the psychic being, to hear its callto live and move and act every moment of our life under the eye of this indwelling Guide, in accordance with its direction and impulsion. Our initiation is not therefore a one-time affair only; but at every moment, at each step, it has to be taken again and again, it must be renewed, revitalised, furthered and streng thened constantly and unceasingly; for it means that at each step and at every moment we have to maintain the contact of our external consciousness with the inner being; at each step and every moment we have to undergo the test of our sincerity and loyalty the test whether we are tending to our inner being, moving in its stream or, on the contrary, walking the way of our external animal nature, whether the movements in the mind and life and body are controlled by their habitual inferior nature or are open to and unified with their hidden divine source. This recurrent and continuous initiation is at the secret basis of all spiritual disciplinein the Integral Yoga this is the one and all-important principle.
   Mundaka, Ill. 2. 4

03.04 - The Body Human, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This is man's great privilege that, unlike the animal, he can surpass himself (the capacity, we may note, upon which the whole Nietzschean conception of humanity was based). Man is not bound to his human nature, to his anthropomorphism, he can rise above and beyond it, become what is (apparently) non-human. Therefore the Gita teaches: By thy self upraise thy self, lower not thy self by thy self. Indeed, as we have said, man means the whole gamut of existence. All the worlds and all the beings in all the worlds are also within his frame; he has only to switch or focus his consciousness on to a particular point or direction and he becomes a particular type in life. Man can be the very supreme godhead or at the other extreme a mere brute or any other intermediary creature in the hierarchy extending between the two.
   The Divine means the All: whatever there is (manifest or beyond) is within Him and is Himself. Man too who is within that Divine is the Divine in a special way; for he is a replica or epitome of the Divine containing or embodying the threefold status and movement of the Divine the Transcendent, the Cosmic and the Individual. He is co-extensive with the Divine. Only, the Divine is conscious, supremely conscious, while Man is unconscious or at best half-conscious. God has made himself the world and its creatures, the transcendental has become the material cosmos, true; but God has made himself Man in a special sense and for a special purpose. Man is not a fabrication of the Lower Maya, a formation thrown up in the evolutionary course by a temporary idea in the Cosmic Mind and developed through the play of forces; on the other hand, it is a typal reality, a Real-Ideaa formation of the original truth-consciousness, the Divine's own transcendental existence. Man is the figure of the Divine Person. The Impersonal become or viewed as the Personal takes up the human aspect, the human, that is to say, as its original prototype in the superconscience.

03.05 - Some Conceptions and Misconceptions, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Sri Aurobindo's view is different. It is something like this I am putting the thing as simply as possible, without entering into details or mysteries that merely confuse the brain. The Absolute Reality contains all, nothing can be outside it, pain and sin and all; true. But these do not exist as such in the supreme status, they are resolved each into its ultimate and fundamental force of consciousness. When we say I all things, whatever they are, exist in the Divine Consciousness, the Absolute, we have an idea that they exist there as they do here as objects or entities; it goes without saying, they do not. Naturally we have to make a distinction between things of Knowledge and things of Ignorance. Although there is a gradation between the twoKnowledge rolls or wraps itself gradually into Ignorance and Ignorance unrolls or unfolds itself slowly into Knowledgestill in the Divine Consciousness things of Knowledge alone exist, things of Ignorance cannot be said to exist there on the same title, because, as I have said, the original truths of things alone are therenot their derivations and deformations. One can say, indeed, that in the supreme Light darkness exists as a possibility; but this is only a figure of speech. Possibility does not mean that it is there like a seedor even a chromosome rodto sprout and grow. Possibility really means just a chance of the consciousness acting in a certain way, developing in a particular direction under certain conditions.
   Matter exists in the absolute Consciousness, not as Matter but as its fundamental substratum, as that radical mode of being or consciousness which by the devolution of consciousness and the interaction of Knowledge and Ignorance in the end works itself out as Matter. So also with regard to Life and with regard to Mind. If things are to exist in the highest status of consciousness, the Divine Consciousness, exactly as they exist now, there would be no point or meaning in creation or manifestation. Manifestation or creation does not mean merely unveiling or unrolling in the sense of unpacking. It means a gradual shift in the stress of consciousness, giving it a particular mode of action.

03.06 - Divine Humanism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The religious or Christian humanism of the West is in its essential nature the pagan and profane humanism itself, at least an extension of the same. The sympathy that a St. Francis feels for his leprous brother is, after all, a human feeling, a feeling that man has for man; even his love for an animal or an inanimate object is also a very human feeling, transferred to another receptacle and flowing in another direction. It is a play of the normal human heart, only refined and widened; there is no change in kind.
   It goes without saying that, in the East too, there is no lack of such sympathy or fellow-feeling either in the saint or in the ordinary man of the world. Still there is a difference. And the critics have felt it, if not understood it rightly. Indian bhta day and Christian charity do not spring from the same source I do not speak of the actual popular thing, but of the ideal and ideology; even when the manner of expression is similar or the same in both, the spirit and the significance are different. In the East the liberated man, or the man aiming at liberation, may work for the good and welfare of the world, but also he may not; and, what is more important, when he does so work, the spirit is not that of benevolence or philanthropy, nor is there the ethical sense of duty.
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   And yet there is a humanism that is proper to Indiait is not 'human humanism', but, as it is called, 'divine humanism'. That is to say, the human formula is maintained, but a new significance, a transcendent connotation is put into it. The general contour of the instrumentation is preserved, but the substance is transmuted. The brain, the heart and the physical consciousness not only change their direction, but their very nature and character. And the Divine Himself is conceived as such a Divine Person for the norm of the human personality in this view is an eternal verity in the divine consciousness.
   Esoteric Christianity also has given us the conception of the Human Divine; but it is somewhat different from the Vaishnava revelation which has found rather the Divine Human. In other words, as I have already said, one has brought down the divinity nearer to human appreciation and has humanised it; in the other, the human has been uplifted and made into an archetypal reality where the human terms are more or less symbols and figures, having not merely a human but a suprahuman significance. The entire Vaishnava Lila takes place not on this earth at all, but eternally in the eternal world of the inner consciousness cinmayabehind all earthly (and human) manifestation and expression.

03.06 - The Pact and its Sanction, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   So we have to see the type of cells that grow and become consciously active in the body politic. It is sattwalight that brings in knowledge and harmony. And the movement for reformation and growth among the mass has to be inspired by that quality or mode of consciousness. A sound and healthy structure can be raised effectively upon that basis alone. The man in the mass, as I have said and as is well known, is a good-natured malleable material, but it is ignorant and inert: it can easily be worked upon by any kind of strong force, worked up to any kind of mischief. Shakespeare has made us very graphically familiar with the reaction of a mob and that remains true even today. Even if right direction is there at the top, at the higher governmental level, reflecting the mind of the true intelligentsia, a well-meaning plan is doomed to failure if it does not touch and move the middle strata that are the real executive agents.
   The government in modern times represents indeed the executive power of the nation, itself is composed of the three social elements we speak of. First of all, the high or top-ranking officials, as they are called, who can think out and initiate a policy; next, the intermediate services who form the dynamic limb of the organism; lastly, there is the rung of the subordinate services. Here too the difficulty is with the intermediate grade. It is there that the "disaffected" are born and breddisaffected not because of grievances or injustices done, but because of the urge of ideals and purposes, ideas and designs. The subordinate manpostman, railwayman, clerk, school master, daily labourerhas no ambitions, is not tortured by nostalgic notions: left to themselves, these people accommodate themselves to circumstances and take things as they come without worrying too much. But the point is that they are never left to themselves. It is told to themnot without reason, though that they do not live, they vegetate: they are dead, otherwise they would be living and kicking. The rousing of the masses has always been the sacred mission of all reformers and saviours of humanity. For they form the bulk of humanity and its future is bound up with their destiny.
   The whole difficulty centres upon the question: who rouses whom, and what is the principle that is meant to rouse. There is a slogan that incited the Red Terror of the French Revolution; there is the other one which inspired the Nazis; there is still another one rampant that had the seal and sanction of Stalin and his politburo. These have spread their dark wings and covered the saviour light. On the other hand, the voice of the Vedic Rishi that hymned the community of faith and speech and act, the kindly light that Buddha carried to suffering humanity, the love and sacrifice of Christ showing and embleming the way of redemption, the saints and sages in our own epoch who have visioned the ideal of human unity in a divine humanity, even secular leaders who labour for "one world", "a brave new world"all point to the other line of growth and development that man can follow and must and shall follow. The choice has to be made and the right direction given. In India today, there are these two voices put against each other and clear in their call: one asks for unity and harmony, wideness and truth, the other its contrary working for separativeness, disintegration, narrowness, and make-believe and falsehood. One must have the courage and the sagacity to fix one's loyalty and adhesion.
   A true covenant there can be only between parties that work for the light, are inspired by the same divine purpose. Otherwise if there is a fundamental difference in the motive, in the soul-impulse, then it is no longer a pact between comrades, but a patchwork of irreconcilable elements. I have spoken of the threefold sanction of the covenant. The sanction from the top initiates, plans and supports, the sanction from the bottom establishes and furnishes the field, but it is the sanction from the mid-region that inspires, executes, makes a living reality of what is no more than an idea, a possibility. On one side are the Elders, the seasoned statesmen, the wise ones; on the other, the general body of mankind waiting to be moved and guided; in between is the army of young enthusiasts, enlightened or illumined (not necessarily young in age) who form the pra, the vital sheath of the body politic. Allby far the largest part of itdepends upon the dreams that the Prana has been initiated and trained to dream.

03.07 - Brahmacharya, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This hiatus in our nature, the separation between intellectual culture and life movement has to be healed up; human personality must be made a unified whole. The training given under Brahmacharya will be of immense help in that direction. The deeper purpose, however, of this discipline is not merely a unification of the personality, but a heightening also, lifting it to a level of consciousness from where it can envisage its spiritual destiny and seek to realise it.
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03.09 - Sectarianism or Loyalty, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   A spiritual interest is nothing if it is not in this way a question that touches life to its core. That means a definite goal and appropriate means to reach that goal, and that again necessarily involves a choice, a process of acceptance and rejection. The goal is also called the ista, the godhead that one seeks, the Divine that is fulfilled in oneself. Being a personality, an individual, one has to choose, one can best follow the line of evolution and growth and fulfilment of that personality and individuality that is the call of the Psyche, the direction of the Jiva. In other words, one has to be loyal and faithful to one's nature and being. That is why it is said: Better to perish while fulfilling one's own law of life than to flourish by fulfilling another's law. By being curious about another's Dharmait is this kind of curiosity that led to the original fall of man, according to the Bible that is to say, if one is vitally curious, allows oneself to be influenced and so affected and diverted by what is an outside and foreign force, because not in the line of one's own truth and development, one asks for a mixture and intervention which bring confusion, thwart the growth and fulfilment, as that falsifies the nature.
   It is not only bad influences that affect you badly, even good influences do solike medicines that depend upon the particular constitution for their action. In ancient times this was called varasankara or dharmasakara, as for example, when a Kshatriya sought to follow the rule of life of a Brahmin or vice versa. This kind of admixture or msalliance was not favoured, as it was likely to bring about an obscurity in the consciousness and in the end frustration in the spiritual life. That was the original psychological reason why heresy was considered such a dangerous thing in all religions.

03.10 - The Mission of Buddhism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Buddhism cried halt because of two omissions: it turned man's mind to two new directions. In our eagerness to reach the spiritual and the supra-sensual, we gave scant recognition to the mental and the rational; and yet mind and reason should be the very basis of the life spiritual. And in the pursuit of God and the gods and the things divine, we became blind to human problems, things concerning man in the human way. The earlier vision gives us a happy picture of humanity. The world moves, it was said, from delight to delight, it was born in delight and it consummates in delight. One sang of immortality, of the solar light, of men being children of Heaven and Beatitude. That this material structure on which man leads his precarious existence is a texture of age and disease and death, that misery and undelight is of the very substance of human life was a hard fact that did not get due recognition. Perhaps it was an earlier, that is to say, a younger humanity
   A simple Child,

03.11 - The Language Problem and India, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The stamp of mental clarity and neat psychological or introspective analysis in the French language has been its asset and a characteristic capacity from the time of Descartesthrough Malebranche and Voltaire and the Encyclopaedists right down to Bergson. The English are not by nature metaphysicians, in spite of the Metaphysicals: but greatness has been thrust upon them. The strain of Celtic mysticism and contact with Indian spiritual lore have given the language a higher tension, a deeper and longer breath, a greater expressive capacity in that direction.
   But French seems to have made ample amends for this deficiency (in the matter of variety of experiences especially in the supra-rational religions) by developing a quality which is peculiar to its turn of psychological curiosity and secular understandinga refined sensibility, a subtle sensitiveness, an alert and vibrant perception that puts it in contact with the inner (even though not so much the higher) almost the hidden and occult movements of life. That is how mysticismla mystiquecomes by a back door as it were into the French language.

03.11 - True Humility, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Humility is unreservedly humble, as it envisages the immensity of the labour the Divine has undertaken, sees the Grace, infinite and inscrutable, working miracles every moment: and it is full of gratitude and thanksgiving and quiet trust and hopefulness. Certainly, it means self-forgetfulness and selflessness, as it cannot co-exist with the sense of personal worth and merit, with any appreciation of one's own tapasya and achievement, even as it thrives ill upon self-abasement and self-denigration, for if one is rajasic, the other is tamasic egoismegoism, in any case. Absolute nullity of the egoistic self is the condition needed, but anything less than that, any lowering of the consciousness beyond this zero point means reaffirming the ego in a wrong direction. True humility has an unostentatious quietness, as it has a living and secret contact with the divine consciousness.
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03.13 - Human Destiny, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 02, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   On a comparatively shorter view of the human evolution we observe as, for example, Spengler has shown, a serial or serials of the rise and fall of races and nations and cultures. Is that a mere repetition, more or less of the same or very similar facts of life, or is there a running thread that points to a growth, at least a movement towards some goal or purpose to attain and fulfil? The present cycle of humanity, which we may call and is usually called the historic age, dates from the early Egyptians and, in India, from the ancestral Vedic sages (prve pitra). On a longer outlook, what has been the nature of man's curve of life since then to the present day? Races and cultures have risen and have perished, but they have been pursuing one line, moving towards one direction the growth of homo fabricus the term coined by NietzscheMan the artisan. Man has become man through the discovery and use of toolsfrom tools of stone to tools of iron, that marks his growth from primitiveness to civilisation. And the degree of civilisation, the distance he has travelled from his origins is measured precisely by the development of his tools in respect of precision, variety, efficiency, serviceability. Viewed from that standpoint the modern man has travelled indeed very far and has civilised himself consummately. For the tools have become the whole man; man has lost his human element and almost become a machine. A machine cannot run indefinitely, it has got to stop when life is not there. So it is often prognosticated now that man is at the end of his career. He is soon going to be a thing of the past, an extinct racelike one of the prehistoric species that died out because they could not change with the circumstances of life, because they became unchanging, hard and brittle, soto say, and fell to pieces, or otherwise they continued to exist but in a degraded, a mere vegetative form.
   But, as we have said, man seems to have yet retained his youthfulness. He always just falls short of the perfect perfection, that is to say, in any single form or expression of life. Life did become stereotyped, mechanised, and therefore fossilised, more or less, in Egypt of the later Dynasties; in India too life did not become less inert and vegetative during two long periods, once just preceding the advent of the Buddha,.

03.14 - Mater Dolorosa, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   This is a counsel of perfection, one would say. But there is no other way out. If humanity is to be saved, if it is at all to progress, it can be only in this direction. Buddha's was no less a counsel of perfection. He saw the misery of man, the three great maladies inherent in life and his supreme compassion led him to the discovery of a remedy, a radical remedy,indeed it could remove the malady altogether, for it removed the patient also. What we propose is, in this sense, something less drastic. Ours is not a path of escape, although that too needs heroism, but of battle and conquest and lordship.
   It is not to say that other remediesless radical but more normal to human naturecannot be undertaken in the meanwhile. The higher truths do not rule out the lower. These too have their place and utility in Nature's integral economy. An organisation based on science and ethicism can be of help as a palliative and measure of relief; it may be even immediately necessary under the circumstances, but however imperative at the moment it does not go to the root of the matter.

03.17 - The Souls Odyssey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The deep spiritual truth we are referring to is the Odyssey of the human soul. And it is also an occult phenomenon happening in the world of the inner reality. The Soul's own home is in God, is God; for it is part and parcel of the divine consciousness, it is essentially one in being and nature with the supreme Reality. It is a nucleus, a centre of individuation, a projection in a particular name and form of the infinite and eternal Being and Consciousness and Bliss on this side of manifestation or evolutionary Nature. Being in and with the Divine, merged within it, the Soul has, at the same time, its own proper domain, exclusively its own, and its own inalienable identity. It is the domain where the Soul enjoys its swarjya, its absolute freedom, dwelling in its native light and happiness and glory. But the story changes, the curve of its destiny takes a sudden new direction when it comes down upon earth, when it inhabits a mortal body. Within the body, it no longer occupies its patent frontal position, but withdraws behind a veil, as it were: it takes its stand behind or within the depth of the heart, as spiritual practice experiences it. It hides there, as in a cavern, closed in now by the shades of the prison-house which its own body and life and mind build round it. Yet it is not wholly shut out or completely cut off; for from its secret home it exerts its influence which gradually, slowly, very slowly indeed, filters throughba thes, clarifies, illumines the encasement, makes it transparent and docile in the end. For that is the Soul's ultimate function and fulfilment.
   In the meanwhile, however, our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting. A physical incarnation clouds the soul-consciousness and involves loss of memory, amnesia. The soul's travail therefore in a physical body is precisely to regain the memory of what has been forgotten. Spiritual discipline means at bottom this remembering, and all culture too means nothing more than that that is also what Plato thought when he said that all knowledge, all true knowledge consists in reminiscence.

04.01 - The March of Civilisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Indeed, these movements, the appearance of great souls upon earth and the manifestation of larger collective surges in human society, are not isolated happenings, having no reference or point of contact with one another. On the contrary, they are two limbs of a global evolutionary process. In and through them across countries and centuries the spirit of humanity moves towards greater and greater fulfilment. Evolution means the growth of consciousness. In man in his collective existence the growth continues: it lies in two directions. First of all, in extension. A sufficiently large physical body is needed to house the growing life and consciousness: therefore the unicellular organism has developed into the multicellular. In the same way, in the earliest stages of human society, the light and power of consciousness, characteristic of that age, found expression among a few only: it was the age of representative individuals, leadersRishi, Magi, Patriarch, Judge, King. Next a stage came when the cultural consciousness widened and, instead of scattered individuals or some families, we have a large group, a whole class or section of society who become the guardian of the light: thus arose the Brahmin, the lite, the cultured class, the aristocracy of talents. The light and culture filters down further and embraces larger masses of people who take living interest and share in the creative activities of man, in the higher preoccupations of mind and thought; this is the age of enlightened bourgeoisie. In comparatively recent times what is familiarly known as the "middle class" was the repository and purveyor of human culture.
   The light sinks further down and extends still more its scope seeking to penetrate and encircle the whole of humanity. The general mass of mankind, the lowest strata of society have to be taken in, elevated and illumined. That must be the natural and inevitable consummation of all progress and evolution. And that is the secret sense and justification of the Proletarian Revolution of today. Although, the many names and forms given to it by its violent partisans do not bring out or sufficiently honour the soul and spirit that informs it.
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   Not only in extension but the growth or evolution has progressed in another direction. There has not only been a quantitative but also a qualitative development. Culture movements have grown in intent, in depth or elevation, in the meaning and significance of the consciousness involved. And they have converged towards a single aim and purpose. That purpose is not only the establishment of the global consciousness, but the expression and embodiment of the highest, the supreme consciousness. The process here too, as in the domain of extension, is one of graduation, advance by stages. The light, the light of awakening consciousness first touches the more easily accessible parts of human nature, the higher domains that are not too much involved in the gross material or animal nature. It is the realm of thoughts and ideas, of idealism, imagination and aspiration: it is man's mind, which is the least heavily weighted or ballasted by a downward gravitational pull and the most buoyant and supple the Ariel in him. It is his head that first receives the glow of the morning sun.
   If we look at Europe once again and cast a glance at its origins, we find at the source the Grco-Roman culture. It was pre-eminently a culture based upon the powers of mind and reason: it included a strong and balanced body (both body natural and body politic) under the aegis of mens sana (a sound mind). The light that was Greece was at its zenith a power of the higher mind and intelligence, intuitively dynamic in one the earlierphase through Plato, Pythagoras, Heraclitus and the mystic philosophers, and discursively and scientifically rational through the Aristotelian tradition. The practical and robust Roman did not indulge in the loftier and subtler activities of the higher or intuitive mind; his was applied intelligence and its characteristic turn found expression in law and order and governance. Virgil was a representative poet of the race; finely sensitive and yet very self-consciousearth-bound and mind-boundas a creative artist: a clear and careful intelligence with an idealistic imagination that is yet sober and fancy-free is the very hall mark of his poetic genius. In the post-Roman age this bias for mental consciousness or the play of reason and intellectual understanding moved towards the superficial and more formal faculties of the brain ending in what is called scholasticism: it meant stagnation and decadence. It is out of this slough that the Renaissance raised the mind of Europe and bathed it with a new light. That movement gave to the mind a wider scope, an alert curiosity, a keener understanding; it is, as I have said, the beginning of that modern mentality which is known as the scientific outlook, that is to say, study of facts and induction from given data, observation and experience and experiment instead of the other scholastic standpoint which goes by a priori theorising and abstraction and deduction and dogmatism.
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   The Romantic Revival was a veritable source movement: it was, one can say, a kind of watershed from where various streams of new creation and fresh adventure flowed down in all directions. Its echoes and repurcussions are met with even today and continue. The next stage that followed naturally and inevitably was man's preoccupation with his sense being, his external, his physical and material personality. It is the age of Naturalism, Realism, Pragmatism, Scientism: it proclaims the birth of the economic man. From the heart and emotions we drop down into the field of the nervous and sensuous existence, from the vital sphere into the sphere of the body. And that is where we are today. It means that we have been made more than ever self-conscious on this plane and of this personality of ours. We have been given and are being given greater knowledge of its mechanism; we are intensively (and extensively too) getting familiar with all the drawbacks and lacunae that are there so that we can remedy them and discover new latent forces too, and re-create and possess a truly "brave new world".
   That is how the spirit of progress and evolution has worked and advanced in the European world. And one can take it as the pattern of human growth generally; but in the scheme described above we have left out one particular phase and purposely. I refer to the great event of Christ and Christianity. For without that European civilisation loses more than half of its import and value. After the Roman Decline began the ebbtide, the trough, the dark shadow of the deepening abyss of the Middle Ages. But even as the Night fell and darkness closed around, a new light glimmered, a star was born. A hope and a help shone "in a naughty world". It was a ray of consciousness that came from a secret cave, from a domain hidden behind and deep within in the human being. Christ brought a leaven into the normal manifest mode of consciousness, an otherworldly mode into the worldly life. He established a living and dynamic contact with the soul, the inner person in man, the person that is behind but still rules the external personality made of mind and life and body consciousness. The Christ revelation was also characteristic in the sense that it came as a large, almost a mass movementthis approach of the soul personality to earthly life. The movement faded or got adulterated, deformed like all human things; but something remained as a permanent possession of man's heritage.

04.02 - Human Progress, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Now, these two positionsof Jung and of Heardoffer us a good basis upon which we can try to estimate the nature of man's progress in historical times. Both refer to a crucial change in human consciousness, a far-reaching change having no parallel since it invented the metal tool. The change means the appearance of pure intelligence in man, a change, as we may say, in modern terms, in the system of reference, from biological co-ordinates to those of pure reason. Only Jung thinks that the reorganisation of the human consciousness is to happen precisely round the focus of pure reason, while Gerald Heard is doubtful about the efficacy of this facultyof directive thinking, as Jung puts it-if it is to lead to overspecialisation, which means the swelling of one member and atrophy of the rest; a greater and supreme direction he seeks elsewhere in a transcendence of intelligence and reason which, besides, is bound to happen in the course of evolution.
   We characterise the change as a special degree or order of self-consciousness. Self-consciousness, we have seen, is the sine qua non of humanity. It is the faculty or power by and with which man appears on earth and maintains himself as such, as a distinct species. Thanks to this faculty man has become the tool-making animal, the artisanhomo faber. But on emerging from the original mythopoeic to the scientific status man has become doubly self-conscious. Self-consciousness means to be aware of oneself as standing separate from and against the environment and the world and acting upon it as a free agent, exercising one's deliberate will. Now the first degree of self-consciousness displayed itself in a creative activity by which consciousness remained no longer a suffering organon, but became a growing and directing, a reacting and new-creating agent. Man gained the power to shape the order of Nature according to the order of his inner will and consciousness. This creative activity, the activity of the artisan, developed along two lines: first, artisanship with regard to one's own self, one's inner nature and character, and secondly, with regard to the external nature, the not-self. The former gave rise to mysticism and Yoga and was especially cultivated in India, while the second has led us to Science, man's physical mastery, which is the especial field of European culture.

04.03 - Consciousness as Energy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   So far so good. But two things are to be taken note of. First of all, the resolution of the normal conflict in man's consciousness, the integration of his personality, is not wholly practicable within the scope of the present nature and the field of the actual forces at play. That can give only a shadow of the true resolution and integration. A conscious envisaging of the conflicting forces, a calm survey of the submerged or side-tracked libidos in their true nature, a voluntary acceptance, of these dark elements as a part of normal human nature, does not automatically make for their sublimation and purification or transformation. The thing is possible only through another force and on another level, by the intervention and interfusion precisely of the superconsciousness. And here comes the second point to note. For it is this superconsciousness towards which all the strife and struggle of the under-consciousness are turned and directed. The yearning and urge in the subconsciousness to move forward, to escape outside into the light does not refer merely to the march towards normal awareness and consciousness: it has a deeper direction and a higher aimit seeks that of which it is an aberration and a deformation, the very origin and source, the height from which it fell.
   This superconsciousness has a special mode of its quintessential energy which is omnipotent in action, immediate in effectivity. It is pure as the purest incandescent solar light and embodies the concentrated force of consciousness. It is the original creative vibration of the absolute or supreme Being. Sri Aurobindo calls this supreme form of superconscient consciousness-energy, the Supermind. There are of course other layers and strata of superconsciousness leading up to the super-mind which are of various potentials and embody different degrees of spiritual power and consciousness.

04.03 - The Eternal East and West, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The contrast points to a synthesis parallel to or an extension of the one we spoke of earlier. The first thing to note is that the individual is the source of all progress; the individual has the right, as it is also his duty to maintain himself and fulfil himself, grow to his largest and highest dimensions! Secondly, the individual has to take cognisance of the others, the whole humanity, in fact, even for the sake of his own progress. The individual is not an isolated entity, a freak product in Nature, but is integrated into it, a part and parcel of its texture and composition. Indeed the individual has a double role to perform, first to increase himself and secondly to increase others. Using the terms which the Sartrian view of existence has put into vogue, we can say, the individual en soi (in himself) is the individual in commonalty with others, living and moving in and through every other person; and then there is the individual pour soi (for himself), that is to say, existing for himself, apart and away from others, in his own inner absolute autonomy. The individual is individualised, i.e. raises and lifts himself and then becomes the spearhead breaking through the level where Nature stands fixed, leading others to follow and raise themselves. The individual is the power of organised self-consciousness; the growth of the individual means the growth of this power of organised consciousness. And growth means ascension or evolution from level to level. The individual starts from the organic cell, that is the lower end, it progresses through various gradations of the vital and mental worlds till he reaches the culmination of its growth in the Spirit as tman. But this vertical growth must be reflected in a horizontal growth too. There is a solidarity among the individuals forming the collective humanity so that the progress of one means the progress of others in the same direction, at least a chance and possibility opened for an advance. On the other hand, it may be noted that unless the collectivity rises to a certain level the individual too cannot go very far from it. A higher lift in the individual presupposes a corresponding or some minimum lift in others. There cannot or should not be too great a rift between the individual and the collective.
   As I said, the East usually ignores this correspondence and posits an exclusive either-or relation between the two terms. The individual, according to it, can reach its true individuality by only dissolving itin the Infinite. Of course, I am referring to an extreme position which is general in the East and symptomatic of its fundamental character. The West does not concern itself with these higher lines of individual growth and fulfilment, it limits the individual within the social frame and his mundane or profane life; but what we learn from this outlook is the necessity of the collective growth through which only can the individual thrive and grow. It is however a growth in extension, rather than in intensity i.e. depth and height. This outlook errs in the limitation put upon individuality, precisely identifying it more or less with the "egoism" to which the spirituality of the East objects. This normal individual in its normal development cannot go very far, nor can he lead the others, the society or humanity, to a perfect and supreme fulfilment. The ego-bound normal individuality must transcend itselfexactly the thing that the East teaches; only this transcendence need not mean an abolition of all individuality, but a transformation, a higher integration in a spiritualised, a universalised and divinised individuality.

04.04 - Evolution of the Spiritual Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Indeed, the tradition in the domain of spiritual discipline seems to have been always to realise once again what has already been realised by others, to rediscover what has already been discovered, to re-establish ancient truths. Others have gone before on the Path, we have only to follow. The teaching, the realisation is handed down uninterruptedly through millenniums from Master to disciple. In other words, the idea is that the fundamental spiritual realisation remains the same always and everywhere: the name and the form only vary according to the age and the surroundings. The one reality is called variously, says the Veda. Who can say when was the first dawn! The present dawn has followed the track of the infinite series that has gone by and is the first of the I infinite series that is to come. So sings Rishi Kanwa. For the core of spiritual realisation is to possess the consciousness, attain the status of the Spirit. This Spirit may be called God by the theist or Nihil by the Negativist or Brahman (the One) by the Positivist (spiritual). But the essential experience of a cosmic and transcendental reality does not differ very much. So it is declared that there is only one goal and aim, and there are, at the most, certain broad principles, clear pathways which one has to follow if one is to move in the right direction, advance smoothly and attain infallibly: but these have been well marked out, surveyed and charted and do not admit of serious alterations and deviations. The spiritual aspiration is a very definite and unitary movement and its fulfilment is also a definite and invariable status of the consciousness. The spiritual is a typal domain, one may say, there is no room here for sudden unforeseen variation or growth or evolution.
   Is it so in fact? For, if one admits and accepts the evolutionary character of human nature and consciousness, the outlook becomes somewhat different. According to this view, human civilisation is seen as moving through progressive stages: man at the outset was centrally lodged in and occupied with his body consciousness, he was an annamaya purua; then he raised himself and centred in the vital consciousness and so became fundamentally a prnamaya purua; next he climbed into the mental consciousness and became a maomaya purua; from that level again he has been attempting to go further beyond. On each plane the normal life is planned according to the central character, the lawdharmaof that plane. One can have the religious or spiritual experience on each of these planes, representing various degrees of growth and evolution according to the plane to which it is attached. It is therefore that the Tantra refers to three gradations of spiritual seekers and accordingly three types or lines of spiritual discipline: the animal (pau bhva), the heroic (vra bhva) and the godly or divine (deva bhva). The classification is not merely typal but also hierarchical and evolutionary in character.

04.05 - The Freedom and the Force of the Spirit, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The soldier of an ideal, the martyr, bears testimony to the reality of this mental condition: the Yogi is he who is supremely indifferent to outside contacts (mtrsparah), fixed as he is in inner union with the Divine. Secondly, the freedom of the will not only liberates the inner person, but exerts a pressure on the outside also, upon the field and circumstances, obliging them to change or move in the direction and according to the demand of the will. Consciousness has this power: only all depends on the nature of the consciousness and the will it embodies. For consciousness-will has varying degrees and levels of its potential. A will belonging to the purely mental consciousness can have only a very limited result and may not even show itself at all in any external modification. For it is only one among a million contending forces and its effect will depend upon the allies it can count on its side. Similar is the case with a vital will or a physico-vital will: these are more effective apparently but always in a narrow field; the narrower the field, the greater the possibility of the effectiveness. Moreover, a mental will affects chiefly the mental field, a vital will is directly operative in the vital world, even as a physical force is effective on physical things: each is largely confined to its own domains, the effect on other domains is for the most part indirect and remote.
   But the truly effective will, that can produce an all-round change, comes from a still higher or deeper source. Indeed, the will that never fails, that turns even the external circumstances, adverse and obstructive though they appear to be, to serve it, is the will of the soul, the spiritual being in us. And man is man, not a mere animal, because he has been called upon to seek and find his soul, to get at his inner and inmost being and from there comm and his external nature and outside circumstances too. The orthodox name for this endeavour is spiritual discipline or Yoga.

04.06 - Evolution of the Spiritual Consciousness, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Indeed, the tradition in the domain of spiritual discipline seems to have been always to realise once again what has already been realised by others, to rediscover what has already been discovered, to re-establish ancient truths. Others have gone before on the Path, we have only to follow. The teaching, the realisation is handed down uninterruptedly through millenniums from Master to disciple. In other words, the idea is that the fundamental spiritual realisation remains the same always and everywhere: the name and the form only vary according to the age and the surroundings. The one Reality is called variously, says the Veda. Who can say when was the first dawn! The present dawn has followed the track of the infinite series that has gone by and is the first of the infinite series that is to come. So sings Rishi Kanwa. For the core of spiritual realisation is to possess the consciousness, attain the status of the Spirit. This Spirit may be called God by the theist or Nihil by the Negativist or Brahman (the One) by the Positivist (spiritual). But the essential experience, of a cosmic and transcendental reality, does not differ very much. So it is declared that there is only one goal and aim, and there are, at the most, certain broad principles, clear pathways which one has to follow if one is to move in the right direction, advance smoothly and attain infallibly: but these have been well marked out, surveyed and charted and do not admit of serious alterations and deviations. The spiritual aspiration is a very definite and unitary movement and its fulfilment is also a definite and invariable status of the consciousness. The spiritual is a type domain, one may say, there is no room here for sudden unforeseen variation or growth or evolution.
   Is it so in fact? For if one admits and accepts the evolutionary character of human nature and consciousness, the outlook becomes somewhat different. According to this view, human civilisation is seen as moving through progressive stages: man at the outset was centrally lodged in and occupied with his body consciousness, he was an annamaya purua; then he raised himself and was centred in the vital consciousness and so became fundamentally a pramaya purua ; next the climbed into the mental consciousness and became the manomaya purua; from that level again he has been attempting to go further beyond. On each plane the normal life is planned' according to the central character, the lawdharmaof that plane. One can have the religious or spiritual experience on each of these planes, representing various degrees of grow and evolution according to the plane to which it is attached. It is therefore that the Tantra refers to three gradations of spiritual seekers and accordingly three types or lines of spiritual discipline: the animal (pau bhva) the heroic (Vra bhva) and the godly or divine (deva bhva). The classification is not merely typal but also hierarchical and evolutionary in character.

04.09 - Values Higher and Lower, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   We see the movement accepted and advanced (if not even initiated) more in the West than in the East. That the world is a progressive and progressing phenomenon comes easily and naturally to the European mind. The East has been habituated to a static view of things: if there is dynamism, it is mostly considered as a movement in a circle. The spiritual East with its obsessing experience of the Infinite and Eternal and Permanent, the Transcendent, found it unnecessary to attach that importance to the impermanent and finite which would give it a meaning and purpose and direction. Therefore we see in India those who advocate this new view are considered Europeanised and not following the au thentic spiritual tradition of India.
   We, of course, are not of the opinion that all possible revelations in the spiritual sphere have been made and done with even in India or that there cannot be fresh valuations of the old revelations or their applications in a new way. We believe in the words of the ancient Rishis who declared that dawns come endlessly in succession, today's dawn follows the path trod by the ancient ones and is the first of the eternal series to come in the future. Each dawn brings in a new and fresh revelation, a hope and vision looking into the future although linked in with the experiences of the infinite past.

05.03 - Bypaths of Souls Journey, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Reverting to the original question with which we started, we can say now that the birth of a soul is not like the birth of a living being or organism, that is to say, it does not happen at a given point of time. A soul is truly aja, unborn; it was always there imbedded as the element of secret consciousness in the bosom of the inconscient material Nature. Only it grew out, manifested itself, attaining gradually an individuality and an integrated personality. Neither can it be said that all souls originally, that is to say, at the very beginning of their evolutionary course, were of the same magnitude, equal in all respects. As we know the ultimate material particles the atoms of the different elements or their constituents, protons, etc.have not all the same mass or charge, even so the spiritual elements too have not the same potency or vibration: they are of varying sizes and strengths. The stress of the evolutionary urge in life expressed itself in multiple and varied figures and dispositions, variation being an inherent virtue of the stress. And the development too follows a chequered line: the direction, the tempo, the degree, the manner of the march all differ according to the case, each spark is or tends to be unique and sui generisand even erratic perhapsin its behaviour, like its physical counterpart, the indeterminate and indeterminable material particle. And yet all move towards a heightening, enlarging, deepening of the consciousness rivers flowing and broadening out in their meandering course to the sea: what was unformed, rudimentary, scarcely distinguishable from out of a homogeneous mass, detaches itself gradually, shapes itself into an organised individual entity and finally the fully conscious personality. But, as I have said, the growth does not follow a single one-track straight line: there can be a fusion of souls, the descent and integration of a being or soul from another level of consciousness into a developing soul or psychic element from out of Nature. In this sense then there can be a birth of souls too. The astronomers speak of novae, new stars that suddenly flare out in the sky, as if from nowhereeven though they or their elements were existent before the phenomenon happened. Souls too can come to birth in an analogous way. That is to say, it is due to a special descent of a formed being or consciousness into the human vehicle. The conception of the "twice-born caste" may be remembered in this connection. There is a physical birth and there is a spiritual birth: the latter takes place when the being on the physical plane, yet wholly belonging to evolving Nature, suddenly (it usually happens suddenly) opens and receives into itself a higher principle and becomes a conscious personality.
   The soul in Nature grows along a definite line and the descent also of higher principles overarching that soul happens also in the same line connecting it with its archetype in the supreme status. This we may call the major line of development through various avataras one after another: but apart from this there may also be subsidiary formations that are its emanations or are added to it from elsewhere either temporarily or even permanently. The soul can put out derivative or ancillary emanations, parts of its being and consciousness, a mental or vital or even a subtle physical movement or formation which can take a body creating a temporary, a transient personality or enter into another's body and another personality in order to go through a necessary experience and gather an element needed for the growth of its being and consciousness. One can recall here the famous story of Shankaracharya Who entered into the body of a king (just dead, made him alive and lead the life of the king) in order to experience love and enjoyment, things of which, being a Sannyasi, he was innocent. Similarly one can take into one-self such parts and elements from others which he wishes to utilise for his growth and evolution. It is said that a man with low carnal instincts and impulses becomes an animal of that type in his next life. But perhaps it is truer to say that a part only the vital part of animal appetiteenters into or takes shape in an animal: the soul itself, the true or the whole being of the person, once become human, does not revert to animalhood. The animal portion in man that refuses to be taken up and integrated, sublimated into the higher human consciousness has to be satisfied and exhausted, as much as possible, in the animal way.

05.04 - The Measure of Time, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Looked at from the higher source of things, the time-factor itself appears as an illusion. What is true is a certain set of conditions in which forces work themselves out. And in this pattern of conditions, time (along with space) does not give the absolute and fixed frame of reference, as is usually taken for granted, but is a varying background, even if it is not a side-issue or a by-product. The conscious force at work in the world aims at a change in the conditions; it is a work primarily of rearrangement and order. The state of Nature, of actualityof ignorance and inertiais one of chaos. What the Divine Will behind, the Consciousness standing over, does is to develop a cosmos out of that chaos. Things are placed wrongly, at random, pell-mell: they have to be assorted, arranged, docketed, each item in its own place. We know, for example, of the material particle in which the atoms are huddled together, each pointing to a different direction, but when they are arranged in such a way that one half points in one way and the other half the contrary way, we have what is called a magnetised body.
   It is when things are arranged in this manner, the right thing in the right place, that divine perfection, the Realisation in the material, is attained. And for this consummation to come about, the process that is followed is a greater and greater infiltration of higher and higher forces into the field of disorder, of our normal life and consciousness. The time taken simply indicates that the process is being worked out; it is an expression of the rhythm of procedure. But to the Divine; the Supreme Consciousness that works, time itself has no separate meaning or intrinsic value; for it a thousand or a million years do not mean more than what is one moment for us. Indeed, the slowness of time simply marks the steps of events in the lower ranges of creation: as we rise higher and higher, forces from there come down into the lower field, and the tempo of events quickens; finally, when the highest peak is attained and its forces descend and intervene in the ordering of the lowest levels, then the change, the arrangement that is being worked out, is accomplished immediately and without delay: the time lag is abolished altogether. Time may be compared to a kind of elastic bond connecting the highest and the lowest and running through the intermediate zones. It contracts as one moves upward and is telescoped, as it were, at the top.

05.05 - In Quest of Reality, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Indeed the second way of approach to the problem is the positivist's own way. That is to say, let us take our stand on the terra firmaof the physical and probe into it and find out whether there are facts there which open the way or point to the other side of nature, whether there are signs, hints, intimations, factors involved there that lead to conclusions, if not inevitable, at least conformable to supraphysical truths. It is usually asserted, for example, that the scientist the positivist par excellencefollows a rigid process of ratiocination, of observation, analysis and judgment. He collects facts and a sufficient number of them made to yield a general law the probability of a generic factwhich is tested or exemplified by other correlate facts. This is however an ideal, a theoretical programme not borne out by actual practice, it is a rationalisation of a somewhat different actuality. The scientist, even the most hard-headed among them, the mathematician, finds his laws often and perhaps usually not by a long process of observation and induction or deduction, but all on a sudden, in a flash of illumination. The famous story of Newton .and the falling apple, Kepler's happy guess of the elliptical orbit of the planetsand a host of examples can be cited as rather the rule than the exception for the methodology of scientific discovery. Prof. Hadamard, the great French mathematician the French are well-known for their intransigent, logical and rational attitude in Science,has been compelled to admit the supreme role of an intuitive faculty in scientific enquiry. If it is argued that the so-called sudden intuition is nothing but the final outburst, the cumulative resultant of a long strenuous travail of thinking and reasoning and arguing, Prof. Hadamard says', in reply, that it does not often seem to be so, for the answer or solution that is suddenly found does not lie in the direction of or in conformity with the, conscious rational research but goes against it and its implications.
   This faculty of direct knowledge, however, is not such a rare thing as it may appear to be. Indeed if we step outside the circumscribed limits of pure science instances crowd upon us, even in our normal life, which would compel one to conclude that the rational and sensory process is only a fringe and a very small part of a much greater and wider form of knowing. Poets and artists, we all know, are familiar only with that form: without intuition and inspiration they are nothing. Apart from that, modern inquiries and observations have established beyond doubt certain facts of extra-sensory, suprarational perceptionof clairvoyance and clairaudience, of prophecy, of vision into the future as well as into the past. Not only these unorthodox faculties of knowledge, but dynamic powers that almost negate or flout the usual laws of science have been demonstrated to exist and can be and are used by man. The Indian yogic discipline speaks of the eight siddhis, super-natural powers attained by the Yogi when he learns to control nature by the force of his consciousness. Once upon a time these facts were challenged as facts in the scientific world, but it is too late now in the day to deny them their right of existence. Only Science, to maintain its scientific prestige, usually tries to explain such phenomena in the material way, but with no great success. In the end she seems to say these freaks do not come within her purview and she is not concerned with them. However, that is not for us also the subject for discussion for the moment.
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   Now, let us advance another step forward. Beyond matter there lies life and beyond life-consciousness. Is consciousness too a mere epiphenomenon as life was once thought to be in the empire of matter? Or can it not be that consciousness is an extensionan evoluteof life, even as life is an extension, an evolute of matter? In other words consciousness is not a freak, even as life was not; it is inherent in life, life itself is a rudimentary movement of consciousness. The amoeba feeling or pre-sensing its way towards its food, the twig bending towards the direction in which it has the chance of getting more light, the sudden appearance of organs or elements in an organism that will be useful only in the future are indisputable examples of a purposiveness, a forward reference in the scheme of Nature. In the domain of life-play teleologyis a fact which only the grossest brand of obfuscation can deny. And teleology meansdoes it not ?the stress of an idea, the pattern of a consciousness.
   Consciousness or thought in man, we know, is linked with the brain: and sentience which is the first step towards thought and consciousness is linked with the nervous system (of which the brain is an extension). Now the same Indian wizard who first, scientifically speaking, linked up the non-living with the living, has also demonstrated, if not absolutely, at least to a high degree of plausibility, that the plant also possesses a kind of rudimentary nervous system (although we accept more easily a respiratory system there). All this, however, one has to admit, is still a far cry from any intimation of consciousness in Matter. Yet if life is admitted to be involved in matter and consciousness is found to be involved in life, then the unavoidable conclusion is that Matter too must contain involved in it a form of consciousness. The real difficulty in the way of attri buting consciousness to Matter is our conception of consciousness which we usually identify with articulate thought, intelligence or reason. But these are various formations of consciousness, which in itself is something else and can exist in many other forms and formulations.

05.06 - Physics or philosophy, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Even Eddington is not so absurd or impossible as it may seem to some. He says, as we have seen, that all so-called laws of Nature can be discovered from within the mind itself, can be deduced logically from psychologically given premises: no empiricial observation or objective experimentation is necessary to arrive at them: they are found a priori in the subject. Now, mystic experience always lays stress on extra-sensory knowledge: it declares that such a knowledge is not only possible, but that this alone is the right and correct knowledge. All thingsmatter and mind and life and allbeing but vibrations of consciousness, even as the colours of a spectrum are vibrations, electro-magnetic waves of different frequency, mystic discipline enables one to enter into that condition in which one's consciousness mingles with all consciousness or with another particular consciousness (Patanjali's term is samyama), and one can have all knowledge that one wishes to have by this inner contact or concentration or identification, one discovers the knowledge within oneself, no external means of sense observation and experimental testing, no empirical inductive process is needed. We do not say that Eddington had in view anything of this kind, but that his attitude points in this direction.
   That seems to be the burden, the underlying preoccupation of modern physical science: it has been forced to grope towards some kind of mystic perception; at least, it has been put into a frame of mind, due to the crumbling of the very fundamentals of the past structure, which is less obstructive to other sources and spheres and ways of knowledge. Certainly, we must admit that we have moved very far from Laplace when we hear today a hard-boiled rationalist like De Broglie declare:

05.07 - The Observer and the Observed, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Science also declared that it is not the observation of one person, however qualified, that determines the truth or otherwise of a fact, but the observation of many persons and the possibility of observations of all persons converging, coinciding, corroborating. It is only when observation has thus been tested and checked that one can be sure that the personal element has been eliminated. Indeed the ideal condition would be if the observer, the scientist himself, could act as part of the machine for observation: at the most he should be a mere assembler of the parts of the machine that would record itself, impersonally, automatically. The rocket instruments that are sent high up in the sky to record the temperature, pressure or other weather condition in the stratosphere or the deep-sea recording machines are ingenious inventions in that line. The wizard Jagadish Chandra Bose showed his genius precisely in the way he made the plant itself declare its life-story: it is not what the scientist thinks or feels about the plant, but what the plant has to say of its own accord, as it wereits own tale of growth and decay, of suffering, spasm, swoon, suffocation or death under given conditions. This is the second step that Science took in the direction of impersonal and objective inquiry.
   It was thought for long a very easy matterat least not extraordinarily difficultto eliminate the observer and keep only to the observed. It was always known how the view of the observer that is to say, his observation changed in respect of the observed fact with his change of position. The sun rises and sets to the observer on earth: to an observer on Mars, for example, the sun would rise and set, no doubt, but earth too along with, in the same way as Mars and sun appear to us now, while to an observer on the sun, the sun would seem fixed while the planets would be seen moving round. Again, we all know the observer in a moving train sees things outside the train moving past and himself at stand-still; the same observer would see another train moving alongside in the same direction and with the same speed as stuck to it and at stand-still, but as moving with double the speed if going in a contrary direction: and so on.
   The method proposed for eliminating the observer was observation, more and more observation, and experiment, testing the observation under given conditions. I observe and record a series of facts and when I have found a sufficient ,number of them I see I am able to put them all together under a general title, a law of the occurrence or pattern of the objects observed. Further it is not I alone who can do it in any peculiar way personal to me, but that, everybody else can do the same thing and arrive at the same series of facts leading to the same conclusion. I note, for example, the sun's path from day to day in the sky; soon we find that the curves described by the sun are shifted along the curve of an ellipse (that is to say, their locus is an ellipse). The ecliptic is thus found to be an ellipse which means that the earth moves round the sun in an ellipse.
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   There is still something more. The matter of calculating and measuring objectively was comparatively easy when the object in view was of medium size, neither too big nor too small. But in the field of the infinite and the infinitesimal, when from the domain of mechanical forces we enter into the region of electric and radiant energy, we find our normal measuring apparatus almost breaks down. Here accurate observation cannot be made because of the very presence of the observer, because of the very fact of observation. The ultimates that are observed are trails of light particles: now when the observer directs his eye (or the beam oflight replacing the eye) upon the light particle, its direction and velocity are interfered with: the photon is such a tiny infinitesimal that a ray from the observer's eye is sufficient to deflect and modify its movement. And there is no way of determining or eliminating this element of deflection or interference. The old Science knew certainly that a thermometer dipped in the water whose temperature it is to measure itself changes the initial temperature. But that was something calculable and objective. Here the position of the observer is something like a "possession", imbedded, ingrained, involved in the observed itself.
   The crux of the difficulty is this. We say the observing eye or whatever mechanism is made to function for it, disturbs the process of observation. Now to calculate that degree or measure of disturbance one has to fall back upon another observing eye, and this again has to depend upon yet another behind. Thus there is an infinite regress and no final solution. So, it has been declared, in the ultimate analysis, scientific calculation gives us only the average result, and it is only average calculations that are possible.

05.08 - True Charity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Charity is commonly understood to consist in rendering material help to your fellow men, giving alms to the poor, medicine to the sick, money or material to those who need them and physical service also where that is required. All this is well and good. The world is ridden with diseases and privations and calamities. And if something is done to alleviate them, it is as it should be, activities in that direction deserve full encouragement. But this does not go far enough, does not touch the root of the matter. It is the human way of dealing with things and must naturally be very limited in its scope and efficacy. There is a higher, a diviner way the way of the Spirit for the cure of earthly ills, cure and not mere alleviation. That was the secret inspiration behind the message of the Christ and the Buddha.
   It is not true that when one's wants are met, one always becomes or remains happy; all paupers are not unhappy, nor are the affluent invariably happy. Happiness is a quality that depends upon something else and comes from elsewhere: it is not directly proportional to material well-being. Unhappiness too is a psychological entity and consists in a special vibration of mind and vitality and consequently of the physical beingdue to a warp in the consciousness itself, in the core of the inner personality. The material conditions serve only to manifest it, maintain or aggravate it, but do not create ittruly they are created by it. That is why the spiritual healers always refer to the bliss of the Spirit as the sole remedy for physical ills even, for disease, misery and death. And the unhappy mortals are always called to turn to the Divine alone in their distressbhajasva mm.

05.09 - Varieties of Religious Experience, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The special gift of the Chaldean line of discipline lay in another direction. It cultivated not so much the higher lines of spiritual realisation but was occupied with what may be called the mid regions, the occult world. This material universe is not moved by the physical, vital or mental forces that are apparent and demonstrable, but by other secret and subtle forces; in fact, these are the motive forces, the real agents that work out and initiate movements in Nature, while the apparent ones are only the external forms and even masks. This occultism was also practised very largely in ancient Egypt from where the Greeks took up a few threads. The MysteriesOrphic and Eleusiniancultivated the tradition within a restricted circle and in a very esoteric manner. The tradition continued into the Christian Church also and an inner group formed in its heart that practised and kept alive something of this ancient science. The external tenets and dogmas of the Church did not admit or tolerate this which was considered as black magic, the Devil's Science. The evident reason was that if one pursued this line of occultism and tasted of the power it gave, one might very likely deviate from the straight and narrow path leading to the Spirit and spiritual salvation. In India too the siddhis or occult powers were always shunned by the truly spiritual, although sought by the many who take to the spiritual lifeoften with disastrous results. In Christianity, side by side with the major saints, there was always a group or a line of practicants that followed the occult system, although outwardly observing the official creed. It is curious to note that often where the original text of the Bible speaks of gods, in the plural, referring to the deities or occult powers, the official version translates it as God, to give the necessary theistic value and atmosphere.
   But if occultism is to be feared because of its wrong use and potential danger, spirituality too should then be placed on the same footing. All good things in the world have their deformation and danger, but that is no reason why one should avoid them altogether. What is required is right attitude and discrimination, training and discipline. Viewed in the true light, occultism is dynamic spirituality; in other words, it seeks to express and execute, bring down to the material life the powers and principles of the Spirit through the agency of the subtler forces of mind and life and the subtle physical.

05.10 - Knowledge by Identity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   In seeking to disvalue the principle of identity as a fundamental element in knowing, Prof. Das brings in to witness on his side the logical copula. Some logicians, of course, assert a parallelism if not identity between the laws of thought and the laws of language, language being conceived as the very imagea photographof thought, but the truth of the matter is that it is and it is not so, as in many other things. However, here when it is stated that the copula disjoining the subject and the predicate is the very pattern of all process of knowledge, one mistakes, we are afraid, a scheme or a formula, for the thing itself, a way of understanding a fact for the fact itself. Such a formula for understanding, however it may be valid for more or less analytical languages, those of later growth, need not and did not have the same propriety in respect of other older languages. We know the evolution of language has been in the direction of more and more disjunction of its component limbs even like the progression of the human mind and intellect. The modern analytical languages with their army of independent prepositions have taken the place of the classical languages which were predominantly inflexional. The Greek and Latin started the independent prepositional forms in the form of a fundamentally inflexional structure. Still further back, in Sanskrit for example, the inflexional form reigns supreme. Prefixes and affixes served the role of prepositions. And if we move further backward, the synthetic movement is so complete that the logical components (the subject, the copula, the predicate) are fused together into one symbol (the Chinese ideogram). We are here nearer to the original nature and pattern of knowledgea single homogeneous movement of apperception. There is no sanctity or absoluteness in the logical disposition of thought structure; the Aristotelian makes it a triplicity, the Indian Nyaya would extend the dissection to five or seven limbs. But whatever the logical presentation, the original psychological movement is a single indivisible lan and the Vedantic fusion of the knower, the knowledge and the known in identity remains the fundamental fact.
   Calcutta Review, 1948 August-September.

05.15 - Sartrian Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   "Freedom is not abeing: it is thebeing of man, that is to say, his not-being". A very cryptic mantra. Let us try to unveil the Shekinah. "Being" means "being" i.e. existing, something persisting, continuing in the same condition, something fixed, a status. Freedom is not a thingof that kind, it is movement: even so, it is not a continuous movement. According to Bergson, the true, the ultimate reality is a continuity of urge (lan vital); according to Sartre, however, in line with the trend of modern scientific knowledge, the reality is an assemblage of discrete units of energy, packets or quanta. So freedom is an urge, a spurt (jaillissement):it acts in a disconnected fashion and it is absolute and unconditional. It is veritably the wind that bloweth where it listeth. It has no purpose, no direction, no relation: for all those attributes or definitions would annul its absoluteness. It does not stop or halt or dwell upon, it bursts forth and passes. It does not exist, that is stay: therefore it is non-being. Man's being then consist of a conglomeration (ensemble)of such freedoms. And that is the whole reality ofman, his very essence. We have said that a heavy sense of responsibility hangs upon the .free Purusha: but it appears the Sartrian Purusha is a divided personality. In spite of the sense of responsibility (or because of it?) he acts irresponsibly; for, acting otherwise would not be freedom. So then this essence, the self-consciousness, self-existence, presence in oneself is not a status, a fixed standing entity: it is not a point, even if geometrical; it is, Sartre describes, the jet from one point to another, for, real point there is none: so it is the emptiness behind all concrete realities that is the true reality, asat brahman, unyamto Sartre that is freedom, freedom absolute and ultimate.
   Practically this conception of freedom brings into high relief, makes almost all in all, only one aspect, one character or attri bute of freedom: the abolition of all ties and obligations and relations beyond oneself involving a hollow self-sufficiency. Naturally such an outlook requires against it a complementary one, even if it is not to correct and complete, at least to support and implement it. Sartre too cannot ignore the fact that the free being is not an isolated phenomenon in the world; it exists along with and in the company of others of the same nature and quality. Indeed human society is that in essence, an association of freedoms, although these movements of freedom are camouflaged in appearance and are not recognised by the free persons themselves. The interaction between the free persons, the reflection of oneself in others and the mutual dependence of egos is a constant theme in the novels and plays of Sartre.

05.27 - The Nature of Perfection, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Perfection is often understood to mean the highest or the utmost possible development, even if it be in one particular line or direction. That, however, can better be called success or achievement. True perfection is not an extreme growth, however great or commendable it may be: it is the harmony of an all-round growth, the expression of the unified total being. And yet this does not involve a stultification of any limb or a forced diminution of any capacity. Perfection does not consist either in the harmonisation of the utmost possible development of each and every capacity, attribute or power of being. First of all, it is not a possible ideal, given the conditions of existence and manifestation. Secondly, it is not necessary: perfection can be realised even otherwise.
   How is the harmony to be brought about in the human system composed of so many different and discordant factors, forms and forces of consciousness? It is not possible if one tries to make them accommodate each other, tone down the individual acuities and angularities, blunt or cut out the extreme expressions and effect some sort of a compromise or a pact of goodwill. It is not the Greek ideal of the golden mean nor is it akin to the modern democratic ideal which lays down that each element is freeto grow and possessto the extent that it allows the same freedom to every other element. No, for true harmony one has to go behind and beyond the apparent divergences to a secret being or status of consciousness, the bed-rock of existence where all divergences are resolved and find their inherent and inalienable unity, their single origin and basis. If one gets there and takes one's stand upon that absolute oneness, then and then only the perfect harmony of all the diversities that naturally rise out of it as its self-expression becomes possible, not only possible but inevitable.

05.30 - Theres a Divinity, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   That is what man can do at his best, and even at his worst, rough-hew. Ignorant as he is, crude as his instruments are, he can do no better (and happily, no worse either). The ideals he has do not go very far, not much beyond his nosethey are limited by his senses, by his notions, by his immediate reactions to the circumstances of the moment. Even when the ends are commendable, the purposes decent, even when he is happily inspired, the materials and means at his disposal are crude and he uses them in a rough and ready manner. What he can achieve in this direction is not even a near but a very far approximate. And when he is otherwise inspired, when suggestions and impulsions come to him from the Hostiles, well, he hews his way, as Hitler didand some others are doing nowto wrong ends; even there he does not succeed wholly, realises his design very partially, grosso modo. The stone club in the hand of the palaeolithic man and the atom bomb in the hand of the modern are equally rough instruments, and the ends which they serve, whether for good or for evil, are also gross, neither far-visioned nor deep inspired, but superficial, strait and narrow, blindly immediate. In either case, however, the Divine remains unaffected, firmly seated behind and in and through both, in and through their ignorant and perverse wills, it is His Will that works itself out and finds fulfilment in the end. Whether one is for or against the Divine, whether one is a God or an Asura, each in his own way contri butes to the progressive realisation of the Cosmic Purpose. From a certain point of view even it may seem as though nothing helps or hinders, all are like a straw in a rushing current.
   In our human reckoning, we seem to help the evolutionary course sometimes and sometimes hamper it with our efforts in so far as they are well directed or ill directed. In the practice of spiritual life too, one may be tempted to find a measurable proportion between the personal endeavour and the attainment. However that may be, at the end of all human efforts, the finishing touch always comes from the Divine Grace. Whether we succeed or fail, whatever be the human judgment of the situation, the Grace is sure to intervene in the final stage: to success it will bring more success giving it the peak of fulfilment, and failure too it will transmute into a glorious triumph.

05.34 - Light, more Light, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 01, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Let us explain. Man is not as ignorant and helpless as he seems to be, as he would himself consider to be. There is in him always a spark, under the ashes, as it were, a perfect freedom behind the faade of a network of bondages, not dead or dormant but biding the time, to come out and be active on the surface. The spark is the light that directs to the right and warns against the wrong; the freedom is the choice to do the right and avoid the wrong. It is just a point of perception, just a flash of awareness, but net and clear: it is there, you have only to notice it. It does not give the why or the whither of the rightness: it is a simple declaration presented to you, for you to do what you like with it: to ignore or to profit by. Usually we do not pay attention to it: our attention is diverted towards another direction and other things. Our environment, our education, our domestic and social influences, even a good part of our own nature demand of us other ways of living and inhibit the spontaneous inherent light of the consciousness. Even so, if we care to look at it, if we sincerely turn round and ask for it, we will find it still there the flame behind the smoke, the queen in the harem, the deity in the sanctum. What is required is just a straight look and not the crooked wink we are accustomed to. The first attempts will necessarily mean a little fumbling, but if you mean what you do, you will find your vision getting clearer. It is our own disinclination that weaves the cobweb of ignorance around the truth. Otherwise, an unsophisticated consciousness, a consciousness which is not vitiatedmore often by nurture than by naturecan always feel the presence of the truth and is directly aware of it.
   A blinded misdirected mind, if it wakes up at any time and looks about for the truth sincerelywe insist upon the conditioncan recognise it, learn to trace it by certain indications it always leaves behind in the consciousness. A touch of the truth, a step towards it will be always accompanied by a sense of relief, of peace, of a serene happiness and unconditional freedom. These things are felt not as something gross and superficial affecting your outer life and situation, but pertaining to the depth of your being, concerning your inmost fibreit is nothing else but just the sense of light, as if you are at last out of the dark. A right movement brings you that feeling; and whenever you have that feeling you know that there has been the right movement. On the contrary, with a wrong movement you are ill at ease. You may say that a hardened criminal is never ill at ease; perhaps, but only after a great deal of hardening. The criminal was not always a criminal I am speaking of a human being, not a born hostilehe must have started some-where the downward incline. The distinction of the right and the wrong must have been presented to his consciousness and the choice was freely his. Afterwards one gets bound to one's Karma and its chain.

06.03 - Types of Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The first is to think on one subject in a continuous logical order. When, for example, you have to find the solution of a problem, you go step by step from one operation to another in a chain till you finally arrive at the conclusion. The thought is withdrawn from all other objects and is canalised along a single line. This is a kind of meditation, although it may not be usually known by that name. It marks a progress in the make-up of the human consciousness. For normally the mind moves at random, thoughts run about on many subjects, various, contrary and contradictory, from moment to moment. There is neither direction, consistency nor organisation: it is a confused mass of incomplete, inchoate thoughts. The control and organisation of this mass, to start with, in a limited sphere and in a definite direction, the rejection of the unnecessary and the irrelevant and the marshalling and ordering of the required elements form the first exercise towards mental growth. All high intelligence, all effective wielding of thought power needs this discipline. Under the present circumstances of the world the school-life gives the best opportunity for this development. This is a meditation that should be obligatory and universal.
   The next type we may call concentration, instead of meditation. Here we do not pursue a thought-line, but fix the thought upon one object unmoved. It means a further process of withdrawing the consciousness from its habitual outgoing and dispersive movement. The thought is held at a point and attention is focussed upon it: it is continuous and unbroken attention, for example, upon an idea, a phrase (mantra) or an image. One can concentrate also upon a physical point, say, fixing the gaze upon the tip of one's nose, or on a luminous point outside etc. In this discipline the whole mind is gathered together and focussed: or, everything else is shut out leaving only one thing upon which all the light of the consciousness is directed. It is a standstill consciousness, like a flame erect and immobile in a windless place.

06.15 - Ever Green, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The great secret of progressand also of permanent youthfulnessis to feel at every moment that you are just beginning your life and your life experience. Always you start afresh; even if you are on the same path and seem to be moving in the same direction for the hundredth time, you must feel as if it was for the first time that you undertook the journey, it was your maiden attempt towards a new discovery. Forget all past ideas, notions, experiences that crowd upon your mind; sweep away all the accumulated dust that has cumbered your brain; make your consciousness as clean and clear as that of a newborn babeall straightened out, with none of the convolutions and wrinkles of an aged cerebrum. Always you will come into contact with the world and things in all the simplicity and spontaneity of a pure consciousness and always the world and things will bring to you their unending wonder and beauty and truth.
   Whenever you go inside and seek your poise, do not look for your old acquaintances, the familiar experiences, do not carry upon your back the load of the past, but go ahead, as if through a virgin tract, making quite new discoveries, and opening unexpected vistas at each step. You can make an experiment even on your physical body, i.e. take the physical consciousness too to share in your adventure of ever new discovery. Thus you may, for example, forget your habit of eating or even walking, truly forget and try to learn over again, even as you did for the first time as a child. You have to acquire consciously a capacity of the body that has become an almost unconscious reflex action. It is a wonderful and exhilarating experience. Naturally you cannot repeat too often or carry too far an experiment of this kind on the physical plane. But you can freely deal with your inner life and consciousness. You can make your mind and your vital a clean slate, as much as you like: not once in your life, but every moment of your life. And then see how the world impinges upon your consciousness, what fresh discoveries and awakenings come to you endlessly! You can always rid yourself of the accustomed vibrations on the normal levels of your existence, the physical, vital and mental; and even you can go beyond your psychic formation and be the wide, the vast, the limitless, the Infinite itself, void of all name and form. And then with that virgin consciousness drop straight into the world of material life and form, into your body and bodily reactions. The world will give itself up to you in its pristine purity, its original beauty and truth, always luminous and glorious. This experience has to be the normal mode of your living, not simply the culmination or acme of your being, a fixed and stagnant status, even if considered the highest, the summum bonum. That is how you can keep yourself and the world around you ever fresh and young and new.

06.17 - Directed Change, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   You have to accept this principle of change and move onto be one with the cosmic spirit,never to stand still or turn back, but look forward and forge ahead. To be stagnant means to die and be fossilised. Now, if things change continually, it means things can change and must be changed. Only, one must see to the direction in which the change occurs. A change can be, after all, for better or for worse. And you have the power, if you are conscious with the right consciousness, to direct the change and even to initiate one of the right order. Have you ever climbed a hill? There are many ways, paths, issues leading towards the top, some more or less direct, some zigzag, others winding or taking a long round. This does not matter, provided you look upward, have the sense of direction to the summit, then you mount up. Otherwise if you have your face downward or look below, you move downward away from the top. In the same way changes that happen will be directed according to the direction of your look. And there is only one direction towards which you must turn your look: towards the summit, towards the highest goal. It is to grow conscious, to grow more and more conscious-to be conscious of yourself, to be conscious of the universe and to be conscious of the Divine who dwells in you and permeates the world and then to manifest the Divine, in your physical life and in the physical life of the world.
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06.19 - Mental Silence, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is to call in the peace that is beyond, that is already there somewhere. It happens, with a sincere demand or aspiration in the consciousness, a certain readiness in the being. When that happens (something in the manner of the Upanishadic vivute tanum svmhe unveils himself his own body), you feel as if a sheer blank, even a black void has entered into you and captured you. In the very midst of whirlwind activity comes a dead stop. Nothing is there now, no idea, no thought, no notion, no motion evenan immense emptiness has eaten up, engulfed everything. Keep steady and await. In that stillness something rises upup and upand goes out beyond, a tranquil beam of consciousness. And then something descends, from afara peace, luminousness, au thentic and absolute in its reality. It comes down, enters into you, possesses your brain and body. It has, you find, resolved all problems, harmonised all contraries and conflicts; for it comes from the home of mother truth. Now you do not strive, but you know, you do not grope, for you are led. You await and at each moment you receive the direction as to what is to be done; you have no thought or preoccupation, the inspired movement happens automatically and infallibly.
   Sometimes it happens, too, that the sudden silence or inner immobility causes a bewilderment and you are seized by a fear that you are losing all bearings, that you are turning into an absolute idiot or something worse. Some in a panic have let go the grace that came. In such a condition one has to be firm and steady and continue.
   I have said normally you are assailed by all kinds of thought. They come into your brain from all quarters and demand audience and satisfaction. Thoughts need come into the brain, because actions become possible through them, they give the form and frame to your action. But the difficulty is that the thoughts are not only various but almost always contrary to each other; we see man so often moving in contrary directions and contradicting himself at each step. It is bound to be so if the doors of the mind are left wide open. Sometimes, however, or in some persons, one dominant thought takes possession of the mind and drives out all others. In such a case, when a single idea rules, one is likely to cut oneself down, narrow oneself and force the being into a strait-jacket, to move in a closed groove. The being in its entirety does not find self-expression or self-fulfilment. Thus you may have the idea, the fixed idea, that the world is irrevocably miserable and incorrigible and therefore you will naturally plan your whole life to that end, all your occupation and preoccupation will be how to get away from this world, you will seek a far solitude, inner and outer, seek release from existence and merge into the Transcendent or the Void. On the other hand, if you have the idea that in spite of all appearances to the contrary the world is remediable and reclaimable, then your life takes on a different pattern. It will seek to find out ways and means of the remedy and to what degree the possibility goes.
   Now, the value of an idea cannot be determined by the idea itself. Usually one chooses because of some external reason or other: one's education, environment, one's personal temperament, likes and dislikes go a long way in determining one's choice. So the first thing you have to do is not to allow the thoughts to come in pell-mell, as and when they like. Thoughts must come only when you choose them and only those that you choose. There must be a conscious selection. How to proceed in this work? As your own thoughts cannot choose themselves, what you have to do at the outset is to call for a higher guidance and let yourself be absolutely impartial and passive in its hands.
   A blankness is needed, a white emptiness somewhere behindeven if it does not come and occupy the front too. Give up personal choosing and wait for the Higher direction the Divineto do with you whatever it wills. Given the requisite silence and reliance, the decision comes inevitably and you are moved to do automatically what is required to be done from moment to moment. At first you may not get the knowledge of the why and the wherefore of your action, you act merely as an automaton but with the luminous silence within and a tranquil aspiration attending. When once you have been trained in this unquestioning docility, then knowledge will be given to you gradually, at first only of a few steps ahead, later on for a fuller and completer perspective.
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07.02 - The Parable of the Search for the Soul, #Savitri, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  In strange directions runs the intricate plan;
  Held back from human foresight is their end

07.02 - The Spiral Universe, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Evolution does not proceed in a straight line, but in a spiral. That is to say, it is not a constant progress in one direction, but consists of progression, regression and an ultimate progression. The spiral movement means that all things must enter into the phenomenon of evolution, so that it is not one thing only that progresses and others lag behind but that all move forwardall move forward but at different speeds and also from different starting-points. And they move not straight as the crow flies, but in a circle like the soaring eagle. When you concentrate upon one point of the circle, you will see relatively to it many others not advancing at all but receding and the point itself will seem at times to be going back towards a position already left behind. One goes back to pick up certain elements that have not been included in the progress, not properly dealt with. It happens usually that when you progress in one thing, you forget another; so you have to turn back and take up the neglected element. Thus you have to go round and round, as it were, until you include the totality of your being, even embrace the totality of the universe. When you have, however, gathered the by-passed factor and come back to the original position from where you seemed to have regressed, you find that you are not exactly at the same point but at a corresponding point on a higher plane. That forms a spiral, not merely a circle.
   There are, in the universe, an infinite number of points moving, each forming a spiral; so there are an infinite number of spirals. And these spirals do not lie only side by side, but cross each other and thus give an aspect of contrariness and contradictoriness. So if you wish to take a total view of the movement of universal progress, you will be somewhat puzzled. There are so many lines that advance and there are so many which recede at the same time. Some come into the light, others go into the background and none independent or self-sufficient. There is a sort of intermingling, even coordination.

07.11 - The Problem of Evil, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   As to the question why this deviation, this evil at all, I can say, first of all, what you call evil may be only what is not convenient to you, but from the standpoint of universal arrangement that may be the most convenient. Secondly, the thing might have been just an accident, so to say, in the beginning. And what we are concerned with is not so much its why or even how but with the remedy to be found for the evil that is there. Viewing philosophically, however, we may note that the universe in which we live is evidently one movement out of many (actual and possible), that it follows its own law which is not the same elsewhere, that if the principle on which this universe has been created is that of free will, then you cannot prevent the disorderly movement from taking place until a knowledge comes and illumines the choice. If one is free to choose, one may choose the wrong thing, not necessarily the right thing, for if it were decided beforeh and that the choice must be always good and in the right direction, then the choice would no longer be free.
   But in reality these questions cannot be adequately answered in that way. It is a problem to which mental answersof which the mental formulations evenonly serve to diminish the dimensions of the problem; the question itself reduces the problem to a more or less elementary formula corresponding only vaguely and superficially and incompletely to the reality of things.

07.20 - Why are Dreams Forgotten?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   To become conscious of all the various movements of your nights, to recover them in your memory, some sort of training is necessary. The different states of the being in which you roam at night are, as you have seen, usually separate from each other. There is a gap in between two states; you jump from one to the other. There is no highway passing through all the domains of your consciousness connecting them without break or interruption. That means forgetfulness. When you leap from one into the other, you push back, that is forget, the one you leave behind. So you have to construct a bridge and very few people know how to do it; it requires more engineering skill than to build a material bridge. You may have very wonderful experiences in sleep, but you forget them all; perhaps you remember, as I have said, the last one, the one nearest to the physical mind. The best way then to remember and become conscious of the whole night is to begin at the end and go backward. Catch hold of the last image that still persists in your memory, like the loose end of a thread and then pull, pull slowly, till image after image comes back: it is something like the unrolling of a cinema film in the reverse direction. When you lose trace, stop and concentrate a little; try to call back whatever stray bit or faint impression still persists or can be more easily revived and then again pull slowly, gently, pick up whatever shows itself, try to join the bits. In this way, after some trial and training you will be able to recover a good part of the lost underworld.
   There are, however, many ways of setting about the thing. For you must know that your nights are not all the same. Each one is different and brings its own kind of sleep and dream. As each day is different having its own particular kind of activity, each night too likewise comes with its peculiar experiences. You may think that one day is more or less exactly like the previous day, that you are doing the same thing from day to day; but it is not so. Outwardly the activities may appear to be the same, but really their nature and significance vary from one day to another. No two moments are alike in the universe. Your night too is an universe of its own kind. Each night brings its own problem and needs its own solution.

07.21 - On Occultism, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   That is why till now I have not spoken to you of it. But if any of you feel you have a disposition for such things, or some special aptitude in this direction and are ready to surmount all weaknesses, well, I am at your disposal, ready to help you and initiate you into the mysteries. But I am afraid you have still to grow a little more, become more mature before I can take up the charge.
   Of course, age is really no bar. I was doing occultism when I was twelve years old. But I must tell you I had no fear, I had fear of nothing. Here you come out of the body, you are connected with the body by the very tiniest, almost imperceptible, bit of thread, as it were. If the thread snaps, there is an end of it all, the end of your life. So you come out into another world and begin to look about and see what kind of world it is. Generally, the first things you see, as I said, are absolutely terrifying. In your normal view, the air about you is empty; there is nothingyou see the blue of the sky or the white cloud or the sunshine and everything is beautiful. But when you have the other sight, the picture is quite different. You see that the whole atmosphere is filled with a multitude of small formations, which are the remains of desires and mental deformations and they crowd about you in such a way that the whole thing gives you a very disagreeable impression. Indeed, it is positively ugly more often than not. They come near you, attack you, press upon you and you fear and tremble. Then they assume formidable proportions. But if you are not shaken, if you can look with the eye of a calm curiosity, you will find then there is nothing so very terrifying. Things are not beautiful perhaps, but they are not frightful either.

07.29 - How to Feel that we Belong to the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Three hundred years is the minimum, I should say. You must realise what it means to transform the body. The body with all its organs and functionings works automatically without the intervention of your consciousness, and is built upon an animal plan. If your heart stops for the hundredth part of a second, your body goes off. You cannot do without a single one of your organs and you must keep watch over their proper functioning. Transformation means the replacement of this purely material arrangement by a systematic concentration of forces. You must bring about an arrangement of forces, according to a certain kind of vibration, replacing each organ by a centre of self-conscious energy which governs through the concentration of a higher force. There will no longer be a stomach, no more a heart even. These things will give place to a system of vibrations which represent what they really are. The material organs are symbols of energy centres; they are not the essential reality, they only give a form or figure to it under certain circumstances. The transformed body will function through its real energy centres, not through their representatives as developed in an animal body. For that you must first of all be conscious of these centres and their functionings; instead of an unconscious automatic movement there has to be a movement of conscious control. Thus one will have at his disposal not physical animal organs but the symbolic vibrations, the symbolic energies. This does not mean that there will not be any definite recognizable form. The form will be built up with qualities rather than with solid (dust) particles. It will be, so to say, a practical or pragmatic form: it will be supple and mobile, unlike the fixed grossly material shape. As the expression of your face changes with your feeling, impulsion, even so the body will change according to the need of the inner movement: have you never had this kind of experience in your dream? You rise up in the air and you give as it were a push with your elbow in one direction and your body extends that way; you give a kick with your foot and you land somewhere else: you can be transparent at will and go easily through a solid wall! The transformed body will behave somewhat in the same way, it will be light, luminous, elastic. Lightness, luminosity, elasticity will be the very fundamental qualities of the body.
   To prepare such a body 300 years is nothing; even a thousand years will not be too much. Naturally, I am speaking of the same body. If you change your body in between, it will no longer be the same body. At 50 the body already begins to wear out. But, on the contrary, if you have a body that goes on perfecting itself; if each passing year represents a step in progress, then you can continue indefinitely: for after all, you are immortal.

07.36 - The Body and the Psychic, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The Psychic is like the wire between the generator and the lamp. What is the generator and what is the lamp, or rather, who is the generator and who the lamp? The Divine is the generator and the body, the visible being, is the lamp. The function then of the Psychic is to connect the two. In other words, if there were no Psychic in Matter, Matter could not come in direct contact with the Divine. All human beings, including yourself, all carry the Divine within you, you have only to enter within you to find Him. It is a unique speciality of the human being, rather of all embodied beings living upon earth. In the human being, the psychic becomes more conscious and formed; more conscious and therefore also more free, it is individualised. You should note that it is a speciality of the earth alone. It is the direct infusion of a purifying and redeeming agent into the most obscure and unconscious Matter to awaken it by degrees towards the divine consciousness, the divine presence, to the Divine Himself. It is the psychic presence that makes of man an exceptional being. Perhaps it is not good to tell it to him too often, for as it is he is already puffed up and thinks very highly of himself and there is no need to encourage him in that direction. Still it is a fact: so much so that beings from other worlds, worlds of what are known as demigods or even gods, beings from what Sri Aurobindo calls the Overmind, are eager to take a physical body upon earth so that they may experience the Psychic, as they do not possess it. These beings have very many qualities which men have not, but they lack this divine presence which is quite an exceptional thing belonging to the earth alone. All the inhabitants of the higher worlds the Higher Mind, the Overmind and other domainsdo not have the psychic being. Naturally, the beings of the vital worlds have not got it either. But these vital beings do not regret, for they do not want to have it. There are, however, a few exceptional beings on this level who wish to be converted and therefore desire a physical body; but the rest do not want, they are bound to the law of their being and cannot repudiate it.
   So I say and we are bound to admit that it is an exceptional virtue in the human being to bear the psychic in him. But to tell the truth, he does not seem to have profited much by it. He does not look like considering his virtue as something very desirable, from the manner he has been treating this presence. He prefers to it his mental ideals, he prefers to it his vital demands and he prefers to it his physical habits. I do not know how many of you have read the Bible. But there is a story that I used to like always. There were two brothers, Esau and Jacob. Esau had gone out hunting and felt tired and hungry. He came back home and found his brother preparing a dish. He asked Jacob to feed him. Jacob said he would give him food if he, Esau, sold his birthright to him. Esau said, of what use is the birthright to me now, and sold it to his brother. You understand the significance? You can of course take it quite in the superficial way. But I took it differently. The birthright is the right to be the son of God. And Esau was quite ready to give up his divine right for a mess of pottage. It is an old story, but it is eternally true.

07.37 - The Psychic Being, Some Mysteries, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Everything upon earth progresses, has to progress. All men, without exception, even those who have no sense of the psychic, whether they wish it or not, must progress. The psychic progresses in them in spite of themselves and they have to follow the curve of its growth and development. That is to say, man ascends in the scale of life and grows, grows exactly as a child does. In the process of growth there comes a time when one reaches the summit and one changes the direction or the plane of progress. At the outset there is the purely physical progress, like that of the child; then there comes the mental progress, later on the psychic progress and the spiritual progress, so that unless progress changes it direction, when it has reached its limit on a particular level, one has to come down the curve, that is to say, instead of progression there will be retrogression, which means in the end disintegration and decomposition. Precisely because in the purely physical world there cannot be a perpetual and constant progress, there is in this domain this curve of growth, apogee, decline and decomposition. All that does not advance must recede. This is exactly what happens in the domain of matter. Matter does not know how to progress indefinitely, it has not learnt it; so after a time it is tired of progressing or growing. Given this constitution, one cannot go beyond a limit. But there is in man side by side with his physical growth, a vital growth and a mental growth as well. The mental especially can progress long after the body has ceased to progress. The body does not grow; even when it is declining, the mind still can continue to grow, to rise to higher heights. There is a mental ascension contrariwise to the physical descent. But they who do Yoga, who become conscious of their psychic being and are identified with it, who live with its life, never cease to progress, they move upward till the last breath of their life; even when they die their progress does not stop. The body is on the decline, because it cannot keep pace with the inner march forward, it cannot transform itself and mould itself into the rhythm of the inner consciousness. The discrepancy increases so much between the two, that there is a snap at the end and that is death. However, on the purely spiritual level too there is no progress. The domain of the pure spirit means a static condition; there is no progressive movement there, for it is beyond the field of progress, beyond all manifestation. For when you are merged in the Spirit, you have come out of creation and there is no question of progress, or even of any movement.
   When the psychic is about to take rebirth does it choose its form beforehand?
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   I did not say it quite like that. The psychic being is not stupid. What happens may be described in this way: for example, suppose the psychic being has had the experience of the life of a writer. The function of the writer is to express himself, his perceptions and observations and judgements in words; he has a certain field, a certain range of associations and circumstances in which to live and move. But there are other fields and ranges beyond and outside of which he has no experience. So he may say to himself: I have lived with my head, I know something of the intellectual reactions to life: now let me live with my heart and experience the reactions of feeling and passion. Indeed, sometimes an overactivity of the intellect impoverishes the capacities of the heart. So the psychic being, in order to have this new kind of experience, abandons his intellectual heights, so to say, and comes down to the vital plane. He is no longer a creative genius, but an ordinary man, but with a heart enriched or enriching itself with its intense or generous movements. (One can remember in this connection the story of Shankaracharya who being a Sannyasi from boyhood has had no experience of love: he entered the body of a king in order to gather this experience.) It is not rare to see psychic beings that have reached the maximum of their growth in certain directions, take up a very modest and ordinary life in some other new direction or for some other purpose. One who was a king, for example, as I already narrated once, who has had the experiences of power and authority and domination, the imperial heights, may choose to descend to ordinary life, to work as an obscure person without being troubled by the pomps of high position; he may choose very bourgeois surroundings, very humdrum conditions among humdrum men and things, to procure, so to say, a kind of incognito so that he may work in peace and quite. Can you say it is a decline and a fall? It is only facing life, meeting its problems from another angle, another point of view. You must know that for consciousness, the true consciousness the consciousness of the psychicglory and obscurity are the same, success and failure are the same. What is important is the growth of consciousness. Certain conditions which to your human eye appear favourable, may in reality be quiet unfavourable for the growth of consciousness. With your ordinary thoughts and your ordinary reactions you judge everything according to success and failure. But that is the very last way of judging, for it is the most artificial, most superficial and absolutely contrary to truth. In human life, as it is organised at present, it is perhaps only once in a million cases, or even less than that, that truth is given the first place; always there is an element of show mixed up. When a man has success, much success, you may be sure there is mixed up with it as much show.
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07.42 - The Nature and Destiny of Art, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The decline comes in the normal course of evolution which follows a spiral movement. From the beginning of the last century to the middle of it, art became totally a debased thing, commercial, obscure, ignorant, something very far from its true nature and function. But the spirit of art cannot die; only as it rose as a movement of protest or revolt, the forms it chose were equally bizarre. In attempting to counteract the general debasing of taste it went to the other extreme, as is the character of all movements of nature. One was a servile copy of nature, it was pointed out or not even that. In those days it used to be called photographic art, if one were to condemn it: But now it is no longer a term of condemnation, for photography has developed into a consummate art. Neither could it be truly called realism, for there are realistic paintings which belong to a very high order. That art was conventional, artificial, I lifeless. Now the reaction to this movement said: we do not concern ourselves with physical life any more, the reality as we see with outward eyes is no longer our business; we want instead to express the vital life, the mental life. Hence came a whole host of reformers and rebelscubists, surrealists, futurists and so onwho sought to create art with their head. They forgot the simple truth that in art it is not the head that commands, but the feeling of beauty in the heart. So art landed into the most absurd, ridiculous and frightful of worlds. Indeed with the two wars behind us we have gone further in that direction. Each war has brought down a world in decomposition. And now we seem to be in the very heart of chaos.
   Perhaps we are at the bottom of the curve and it is time to mount up. This disintegration is a necessary prelude; it is even from a certain point of view a better condition than that of the epoch of Queen Victoria or the Second Empire in France, the age of the practical, successful bourgeoisie, of snug contentment and dull mediocrity, of death in life. As I say, the movement of progress follows a curve. In a certain epoch some fine things are expressed in a fine way. Then follows an epoch which is tired of the old things, wants to find new things and express them in a new way. The age of Louis XIV, for example, was an age dominated by the sense of artistic creation and it represented the peak of a certain type of the truly beautiful in art and life. In the course of social evolution other ideas, other needs appearedthose of a commercial age. So the curve took a downward course. For there is nothing so antagonistic to art as commerce. For the association of commerce with art means the popularisation of something which is exceptional: it is putting within the reach of all and sundry a thing which is understood and appreciated only by the chosen few, the elite. Perhaps it is because of this, because art has no outlet in the world, it has in these days turned to other directions, into the domains of the mental and the vital, into sideways and bypaths of consciousness. When, however, better conditions prevail, when instead of the spirit of mercantilism, there appears upon earth the sense of a more beautiful reality, then art will be reborn and come to its own. That seems to be still a long way off.
   The art of this decadent epoch is what I call mushroom art. You know how mushrooms grow? They grow anywhere and do not seem to form part, for example, of what you cultivate or where you cultivate. Just think of it! There is a spot on the wall which becomes humid and you see it soon covered with this growth. You have a tree which does not get the sunlight, you will find its roots covered with mushrooms. It is a kind of spontaneous growth which is not linked to the spot where it grows. It is not a limb of its environment, but something extraneous added to it. Instead of mushrooms I could have spoken of parasites: they belong to the same category. You have seen parasite plants? They grow upon trees, they fix themselves there. They have not their own life and organs, they do not draw their food directly from earth, as all normal plants do; they live upon the life of another, make use of the labour of another. There are also animal parasites that live upon another animal, growing and profiting by its labour. Parasites or mushrooms have no raison d'lre to be where they are-they are invaders, interpolators, anomalies.
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   Here in India things are and should be a little different. In spite of the modern European invasion and in spite of certain lapses in some directions I may refer to what Sri Aurobindo calls the Ravi Varma interlude the heart of India is not anglicised or Europeanised. The Calcutta School is a signalthough their attempt is rather on a small scaleyet it is a sign that India's artistic taste, in spite of a modern education, still turns to what is essential and permanent in her culture and civilisation. You have still before you, within your reach, the old temples, the old paintings, to teach you that art creation is meant to express a faith, to give you the sense of totality and organisation. You will note in this connection another fact which is very significant. All these paintings, all these sculptures in caves and temples bear no signature. They were not done with the idea of making a name. Today you fix your name to every bit of work you do, announce the event with a great noise in the papers, so that the thing may not be forgotten. In those days the artist did what he had to do, without caring whether posterity would remember his name or not. The work was done in an urge of aspiration towards expressing a higher beauty, above all with the idea of preparing a dwelling fit for the deity whom one invokes. In Europe in the cathedrals of the Middle Ages, things were done in the same spirit. There too at that time works were anonymous and bore no signature of the author. If any name came to be preserved, it was more or less by accident.
   However, even the commercialism of today, hideous as it is, has an advantage of its own. Commercialism means the mixing together of all parts of the world. It effaces the distinction between Orient and Occident, brings the Orient near to the Occident and the Occident near to the Orient. With the exchange of goods, there happens an exchange of ideas and even of habits and manners. In ancient days Rome conquered Greece and through that conquest was herself conquered by the culture and civilisation of Greece. The thing is happening today on a much greater scale and more intensely perhaps. At one time Japan was educating herself on the American pattern; now that America has conquered Japan physically, she is being conquered by the spirit of Japan; even in objects manufactured in America, you notice the Japanese influence in some way or other.

07.45 - Specialisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 03, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   You must extend, enlarge, enrich your mind. It must be full of thoughts and ideas. It must be stored with the results of your observation and study. It must not be a poor mind, a mind, that is to say, that has not many ideas nor the capacity of reasoning and argument. Your mind must be capable of thinking of many different things, gathering knowledge of different kinds, considering a problem from many different sides, not following only a single line or track: it must be somewhat like a Japanese fan opening out full circle in all directions.
   You have, for example, several subjects to learn at school. Well, learn as many as possible. If you study at home, read as many varieties as possible. I know you are usually asked and advised to follow a different way. You are to take as few subjects as possible and specialise. Yes, that is the general ideal: specialisation, to be an expert in one thing. If you wish to be a good philosopher, read philosophy only; if you wish to be a good chemist, do only chemistry; and even you should concentrate upon only one problem or thesis in philosophy or chemistry. In sports you are asked to do the same. Choose one item and fix your attention upon that alone. If you want to be a good tennis player, think of tennis alone. However, I am not of that opinion. My experience is different. I believe, there are general faculties in man which he should acquire and cultivate more than specialise himself. Of course, if it is your ambition to be a Monsieur or Madame Curie who wanted to discover one particular thing, to find out a new mystery of a definite kind, then you have to concentrate upon the one thing in view. But even then, once the object is gained, you can turn very well to other things. Besides, it is not an impossibility in the midst of the one-pointed pursuit to find occasions and opportunities to be interested in other pursuits.

08.02 - Order and Discipline, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   There are children who are very disorderly. They do not know how to keep things tidy. They do not know even how to keep things. They lose or spoil them. There are several reasons for it. First of all, very often it means that the child lacks sufficient vitality. The vital is not strong enough to take care of external objects. Another reason may be that he does not find interest in the physical life; his interest may lie in the direction of mental occupation, imagination or dreaming etc. Or again it may be a lack of self-control and discipline.
   Anyway the result is the same. That is to say, confusion. There are children who, when they undress, throw their clothing right and left or, when they have done their task, do not know where they put their books and paper, pencil, or ink pot; it takes a lot of trouble to find them again or bring them together. In reality, all this shows an undisciplined nature, a character that is not methodical; it shows that not only in the outside but internally too the person is disorderly. There are people, perhaps considering themselves big, who even have a contempt for physical objects. But Sri Aurobindo says, people who cannot take care of things do not deserve to have them, have no right to ask for them. As I say, it shows a kind of acute egoism, much inner confusion.

08.05 - Will and Desire, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   What one may try, in respect of a child, is to turn the direction of his desires, let him desire better things, better because more true and also more difficult to obtain. For example, when you see a child full of desires, put into him a desire of higher quality, that is to say, instead of desiring purely material objects which can give only a temporary satisfaction, one could awaken in him the desire to know, to learn, to become great and so on. That would indeed be a very good beginning. As these things are more difficult to secure, it will serve to develop, to streng then his will. Even if the difficulty is of a physical kind, if, for example, you give the child a doll to prepare, a Chinese puzzle to solve or a game of Patience, the effort helps in the development of concentration, perseverance, a certain clarity of ideas etc. You can in this way divert the child's will from wrong pursuits to right ones. True, it needs constant attendance and application on your part, but that seems to be the surest way. It is not easy, but it is the most effective.
   To say "no" does not cure, but to say "yes" does not cure either. I knew some persons who allowed their children to do as they pleased. There was one child who tried to eat anything he could get hold of. Naturally he fell sick and got disgusted in the end and cured of the habit. Still the method means risk. For example, a child one day got hold of a match-box and as he was not prevented, burnt himself in playing with it, although thereafter he did not touch a match-box any more. The method may be even catastrophic. For there are children who are dare-devils most children are soand when a desire possesses them they are stopped by nothing in the world. Some are fond of walking along the edge of walls or on house tops; some have an impulse to jump into water directly they see it. Even there are some who love to take the risk of crossing a road when a car is passing. If such children are allowed to go their way, the experiment may prove fatal sometimes. There are people who do allow their children to have this liberty arid take the risk. For they say prevention is not a cure. Children who are denied anything do not usually believe that what is denied is bad, they consider that a thing is called bad simply when one wishes to deny it. So would it not be better, it is argued, to concede the liberty? The theory is that individual liberty must be respected at all costs. Past experiences should not be placed before beings that are come newly into the world; they must get their own experiences, make their own experiments free from any burden of the past. Once I remonstrated with someone that a child should be forewarned about a possible accident, I was told in answer it was none of my business. And when I persisted in saying that the child might get killed, the answer was, "What if? Each one must follow his destiny. It is neither the duty nor the right of anybody to meddle in the affairs of others. If one goes on doing stupid things One will suffer the consequences oneself and most likely stop doing them of one's own accordwhich is hundredfold better than being forced by others to stop." But naturally there are cases when one stops indeed, but not in the way expected or wished for.

08.20 - Are Not The Ascetic Means Helpful At Times?, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   It is because the physical nature in man is usually tamasic. Effort is natural to the vital. But the vital generally makes the effort for its own satisfaction. I do not think that the physical nature left to itself moves spontaneously in the direction of effort; it needs some activity but of a subdued kind.
   Here the thing is somewhat different. The principle of education or training followed here is that of liberty. Life is organised on the basis of maximum freedom; in other words, rules and regulations, injunctions and prohibitions are reduced to a minimum. If you compare our way with that followed by parents in the world with their constant admonitions: don't do this, that is forbidden, must do this but not that etc., etc., you will find the difference. At the school and the college, everywhere, there are rules infinitely more strict than are found here. So, because no absolute conditions are imposed on you for your progress, you do it when it pleases you and you don't do when it does not please you; you take things quite easily.

08.33 - Opening to the Divine, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   You are to open yourself to the Divine and receive Him. Usually you open yourself in all directions to everything and everybody in the world. You open your surface being and receive there all sorts of influences from all quarters. So inside you there-comes about what we can call a hotch-potch of all contrary and contradictory movements: and that creates difficulties without number. Now instead of that, live away from the surface, from the outside and open up to the Divine and receive nothing hut the Divine force. If you can do that all difficulties practically disappear. But, of course, the trouble is there. Unless one is alchemically conditioned, it is an impossibility to have relations with people, to talk to them, to deal with them, have interchanges with them and yet not absorb something out of them. If one can surround oneself with an atmosphere that acts as a filter, then all that come from outside are checked and sifted before they reach you or touch you. That needs a good training and a large experience. That is why people in ancient days who wanted an easier path took to solitude, into the depths of the forest, on the top of a hill or under a cave so that they might not have to deal with people for that naturally reduces undesirable interchanges. Only, it has also been found that such people begin to take an enormous interest in the life of animals and plants instead of men: for it is indeed difficult to do without interchange with something or other. So the best thing would be to face the problem squarely, to clo the yourself with an atmosphere totally concentrated on the Divine so that whatever passes across is filtered in its passage. And further, there is the question of food. The body is obliged to take in foreign matter in order to subsist, it would therefore absorb at the same time a fair quantity of inert and unconscious forces or that of some not very desirable consciousness. I once spoke to you of the consciousness that one absorbs with food, there is also unconsciousness that one absorbs in the same way. That is why in many systems of Yoga you are advised to offer first to the Divine your food and then eat it: it means calling down the Divine into your food before absorbing it. Offering means putting in contact: the food is put in contact with type Divine, i.e. put under His influence. This is a very good, a very useful procedure; if you knew how to do it, it would diminish very much the labour of the inner transformation that one has to do. For in the world we live in solidarity with all others. You cannot take in a single breath of air without absorbing the vibrations, the numberless vibrations that come from all kinds of movements and all kinds of people. So if you want to keep yourself intact, you must, as I have said, maintain yourself in the condition of a filter allowing nothing undesirable to enter. Or put on a mask as one does when crossing an infected and poisoned locality, or do something similar.
   One must have around oneself an atmosphere so condensed, condensed in a spirit of total surrender, that nothing can enter without being automatically filtered. There are wicked thoughts, evil will about you, harmful formations sent out by bad people. The air pullulates with these: dark noisome bacilli. It is so troublesome to be always on the look-out, at every step to be on one's guard, to move slowly with care and caution and precautions; even then one is not sure. But if you cover yourself with the cloak of light, the light of a happy, sincere surrender, and aspiration, that is a wonderful filter, that gives you automatic protection. The undesirable forces not only cannot enter, they are thrown back upon their originator, the attackers themselves become their own victims.

09.02 - Meditation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Now that you have been warned, it is for you to make an effort in this direction.
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09.05 - The Story of Love, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   The movement is quite perceptible in the vegetable kingdom, in the tree and the plant. These trees that rise up and up always, the small ones trying to catch up with the big ones, the big ones endeavouring to mount still further! The plants always seek to find out a direction from where they can receive as much light as possible. It is the need to grow in order to get more light, more air, more space.
   When you see a rose opening out to the sun, it is as if it were for the need of giving away its beauty. For us it is unintelligible, for flowers do not think out what they do. A human being always associates with what he does the capacity to see what he does, to think what he does. But flowers I are not, so to say, conscious at all, theirs is a spontaneous movement. It is a mighty Force that is at work through all this, the great universal Consciousness, the great force of universal Love that makes all things flower in beauty.

09.09 - The Origin, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   If Science moves forward in a definite direction, if it progresses sufficiently, if it does not stop short on the way, it will find the same thing as was found by the mystics.
   If one goes round long enough one must come back to the same point. And once you come back, you have the impression that there was never anything to find outside. Yes, it is like that, there is nothing to find outside yourself.

09.14 - Education of Girls, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   However, I ask you only to understand and admit this much: for some time we still belong to a period of faith and trust, that things are on the way to change, that we have reached a point in time when things are turning and taking a new direction. I ask of you a little more faith, a little more trust, just letting yourself be guided. Otherwise you will lose the advantage of being here. That is all.
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100.00 - Synergy, #Synergetics - Explorations in the Geometry of Thinking, #R Buckminster Fuller, #Science
  alloys, are also interweaving spherically in a number of directions. We find the
  associated behaviors of various atoms complementing each other, so that we are

1.001 - The Aim of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  The whole of our life is a successive series of efforts whether it is the effort that I put forth, or that which someone else puts forth. All these efforts have a common background, although the efforts of human beings are variegated and there is also an apparent diversity of the aims behind the efforts. The farmer's effort is towards producing harvest in the field; the industrialist's effort is towards production of goods and such other items in his field; the effort of the schoolmaster or the professor is in another direction; and so on and so forth. We have an apparent diversity of aims, motivated by a diversity of efforts.
  But this is a great illusion that is before us, and we live in a world of illusions which we mistake for realities. The illusion arises on account of our inability to see beyond a certain limit of the horizon of our mental perceptions. The farmer forgets that the production of the harvest in the field is not the only aim, or rather the ultimate aim, of his efforts. It has another aim altogether connected with certain others, and so on and so forth, in an endless chain which cannot easily come within the comprehension of an untutored mind. The stomach does not eat for its satisfaction. We know very well why the stomach eats. The stomach may say "I eat", but it does not eat; the eater is somebody else, though it is thrust into the stomach. The legs do not walk for their own sake. What do the legs gain by walking? They are walking for some other purpose somebody else's purpose, not their own. Nor do the eyes gain anything by seeing; the eyes see for somebody else.

1.002 - The Heifer, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  142. The ignorant among the people will say, “What has turned them away from the direction of prayer they once followed?” Say, “To God belong the East and the West. He guides whom He wills to a straight path.”
  143. Thus We made you a moderate community, that you may be witnesses to humanity, and that the Messenger may be a witness to you. We only established the direction of prayer, which you once followed, that We may distinguish those who follow the Messenger from those who turn on their heels. It is indeed difficult, except for those whom God has guided. But God would never let your faith go to waste. God is Kind towards the people, Merciful.
  144. We have seen your face turned towards the heaven. So We will turn you towards a direction that will satisfy you. So turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque. And wherever you may be, turn your faces towards it. Those who were given the Book know that it is the Truth from their Lord; and God is not unaware of what they do.
  145. Even if you were to bring to those who were given the Book every proof, they would not follow your direction, nor are you to follow their direction, nor do they follow the direction of one another. And if you were to follow their desires, after the knowledge that has come to you, you would be in that case one of the wrongdoers.
  146. Those to whom We have given the Book recognize it as they recognize their own children. But some of them conceal the truth while they know.
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  148. To every community is a direction towards which it turns. Therefore, race towards goodness. Wherever you may be, God will bring you all together. God is capable of everything.
  149. And wherever you come from, turn your face towards the Sacred Mosque. This is the truth from your Lord, and God is not heedless of what you do.

1.004 - Women, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  115. Whoever makes a breach with the Messenger, after the guidance has become clear to him, and follows other than the path of the believers, We will direct him in the direction he has chosen, and commit him to Hell—what a terrible destination!
  116. God will not forgive that partners be associated with Him; but will forgive anything less than that, to whomever He wills. Anyone who ascribes partners to God has strayed into far error.

10.05 - Mind and the Mental World, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Mind is a force, thought and energy but that can be truly and fully effective when it is organised, directed, that is to say, it becomes then a guided missile. In an ordinary mind the thoughts are, as I have said, dispersed, they go about in all directions, to all objectives and therefore their efficacy is at its minimum. It is like light. Light-energy becomes immensely, incredibly powerful when it is concentrated, gathered towards one point. It is in this way the light-ray nowadays is trying to replace the surgeon's knife.
   Usually when we think of a person or a thing, our thought-vibration reaches its object but because the vibration is diffusenot polarisedit touches or just brushes its object very faintly without almost any reaction from it. An organised, truly individualised consciousness has its thought-movements too, so organised and controlled and directed that it moves with a clear and forceful momentum. A mental vibration, a thought-movement becomes fully dynamic, totally effective, however, when it gets its support from the vital. The vital too in an organised and individualised personality loses its capriciousness and lends its support to the directing consciousness.

1.007 - Initial Steps in Yoga Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Whenever there is repeated persistence in one given direction with reference to any chosen point of attention, we will see that some sort of success results. If a laboratory scientist is to analyse the structure of an atom, he will analyse a particular atom repeatedly by bombarding it with various kinds of light rays, but he will not go on changing the atoms today this atom, tomorrow that atom, today a hydrogen atom, tomorrow some other thing. That will not lead to success. A particular object will be taken up for consideration, observation and analysis, and a repeated attempt will be made to go deep into its structure until its mystery is revealed. So for this, great leisure is necessary, persistence is necessary, energy and willpower are necessary, and there is no need to mention that we must be free from all other outward distractions. When one takes to the practice of yoga, there should be no distraction of any pronounced nature. Minor distractions may be there, but serious distractions which will divert our attention markedly from the point of attention should not be there.
  A fixed place, a fixed time, and a fixed method of concentration are called for. In one of the aphorisms of the sutras of Patanjali, which is very relevant to this point, it is said that the practise should be for a long period: sa tu drghakla nairantarya satkra sevita dhabhmi (I.14). If we want to establish ourselves in yoga, some conditions are to be fulfilled. One condition he mentions is that the practice should be for a protracted period I said at least five years, and not less than five years. It should be repeatedly done every day, without missing even a single day. Even if we have a temperature, fever or a headache, we should not miss it, because these are obstacles. The more we try to exert our will in the practice of concentration, the more will the body also try to revolt. It will create all kinds of complications we will have indigestion, we will have a stomachache, we will have a headache, we will have fever all sorts of things will come. As a matter of fact, it is specifically mentioned in the Yoga Sutras that we will fall sick. It will be an obstacle, and we should not think, "Today I am sick; I will not meditate." That is what it wants, and then it has succeeded. So, first of all, a little guarded way of living may be called for to see, as far as possible, that we do not become so ill that we cannot even sit for a few minutes of meditation. By a regulation of diet and living in a climate that is not too extreme, etc., one can be somewhat free from the anxiety of falling ill to the extent that it would prevent us from doing anything at all in the spiritual field.
  Dirghakala is a protracted period of practice. Nairantarya is practice without remission of effort; that means to say, it has to be done every day at the same time. The third condition is that we must have great love for it. We must have immense affection for our practice. We know how much affection a novelist has for his own work; how much affection an artist has for the painting that he does; how much affection a musician has for his ragas. Every artisan, every engineer, every artist, and every professional has immense affection for his own or her own profession. One cannot have disgust for a profession and then succeed in it; nor should one take to it as a kind of suffering or pain. Suppose an artist feels, "Oh, this painting is a great torture and suffering for me," then a good painting will not come forth, because there is no love for it. So, the practice of yoga will yield fruits only if we have a real love for the practice; and if we have love for it, it will also have love for us. When we protect it, it will protect us. It is said in the yoga shastras that yoga will protect us like a mother it will feed us and take care of us, protect us in every direction at all times, visibly as well as invisibly. Sa tu drghakla nairantarya satkra sevita dhabhmi (I.14) then we get established. .
  To come to the first point once again, the maximum time possible for sitting should be selected. I do not say that it will be a common directive for everyone. It may vary from person to person according to circumstances, occasions, etc., but under the prevailing conditions one can choose the maximum period possible. For certain types of professionals or workers in social life, sitting for more than half an hour may be impossible. Well okay, we shall take it for granted sit only for half an hour, or I would say even for fifteen minutes, but let it be a regular feature. Sit for fifteen minutes every day, and later on, perhaps after a few years of sitting like this, conditions will change automatically.
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  A novitiate cannot comprehend all these things, because generally we are fired up with a kind of sudden enthusiasm. That is all we don't know anything else. "I want to realise God in this very birth now itself, if possible." This is all we say. But what are the things necessary for this purpose? How many difficulties are there? These things will not come to the mind easily, because every little event in this world is connected with many other events and conditions. There is no single, isolated event in this world. This is why we say that steps in the direction of the practice of yoga particularly, should be taken only under the guidance of a competent teacher, one who is an expert in this field. It is more dangerous and more difficult than flying an airplane, because we cannot know what is ahead of us. We also cannot know what influence our past will have upon our present, what effect external conditions will have upon us, and what sudden reactions will be set up from factors within nothing of the kind will be clear in the beginning. When we take a few steps in the practice of yoga, an all-round change will take place. There will be internal change, external change, and even a feeling that God Himself is getting related to us in a more tangible manner than it appeared earlier.
  Even after we succeed in sitting for awhile in a particular posture, the mind will refuse, after a time, to continue the practice. We will not find anyone in this world as clever as the mind very clever in everything. It will look quite all right for some time and the path will appear rosy, but after awhile there will be resentment of the mind even to sit, and it will produce excuses. There will be rationality behind our inability to practise, and we know very well that rationality is the highest thing that can justify anything. When there is reason brought forth in a very judicious manner, justifying our inability to sit for some time and the worthlessness of the practice itself, then there is no argument against it. The greatest danger is rationality, when it is used as a weapon against what is good for us. It is a double-edged sword it can cut us this way and can cut us that way also such is reason. Reason can justify what is good for us, and it can also justify what is dangerous or what is not good for us. Many sadhakas justify themselves in a wrong way altogether, by bringing about reasons which try to point out that the way of life they are living is quite inevitable and unavoidable. "If it is unavoidable, what can I do?" This is what the sadhaka will say. But it would not be unavoidable if proper precautions had been taken. We make initial mistakes without proper thought, and then these small mistakes look very big and, like a mountain, they stand before us. Later on I shall have occasion to refer to the mistakes we generally commit initially, without proper understanding.

10.08 - Consciousness as Freedom, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Consciousness, however, is not mere consciousness, that is to say, awareness; it is also power, power for organisation and execution. It is unconsciousness that is or invariably leads to disorderliness, disorganisation and confusion. It is the light of consciousness that brings order out of chaos, gives an organised direction to forces moving at random and with no purpose. Man has started organising his life since he acquired the light of consciousness. He has been doing the yoga of the intelligent will (Gita's buddhi-yoga) since his advent upon earth. But even in man this force of light, the energy of consciousness is not fully operative because man is not fully conscious, he is only partially so. His mind is conscious and has developed into intelligence (a little strayed into intellectuality); but there are large domains in him that are wholly unconscious, that is to say, move in mechanical rounds, a passive slave of external impacts. I am referring to his vital being and his physical being. Even like the mind these too must admit into themselves the light of the consciousness in order to free themselves from the influence of other external forces and attain the sense of their own truth and self-fulfilment.
   Indeed each part, even each constituent element of our being has an individuality of its own, a personal being and consciousness. And it is because it is not aware of that inner reality, because it has fallen unconscious, therefore it has entered into this life of bondage and slavery and mechanical existence. When life becomes conscious, the life-energy becomes luminous, the vital being gradually gains self-control and self- direction. Instead of being moved about by irresponsible and irrepressible desires and impulses it attains a clarity as to what it should desire and what it should effectuate; and along with that light secures the strength also to act up to the directions of that light.
   The body too similarly can be filled with light and light-energy; instead of being wholly at the mercy of the physical environment, the natural conditions around or even subject to its own innate or atavistic suggestions, it can be aware of its true reality, its inner nature, its higher potentialities.

1.008 - The Principle of Self-Affirmation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  The next step is what we may call 'taking stock of our situation' before we actually embark upon the great adventure of whole-souled meditation. What do we mean by 'taking stock'? Every businessman knows it. We just try to find out what things are there. How much is there on the credit side, or how much on the debit side? How much we owe others, and how much others owe us will be revealed from a stock-taking process. It is said that the true inner structure of a person never gets revealed in ordinary life as long as the mind is pulled in different directions. We know very well that if our right hand is pulled by someone and our left hand is pulled by someone else, and if everyone starts pulling us from all directions, we cannot assess our true state of affairs on account of our diversion of attention in the direction of the pulls exerted upon our personality. Our psychological personality receives the impact of these pulls every day in our life so that we are never ourselves, even for a few minutes of the day. We are always artificial personalities, a fact which will not come to the daylight of understanding because we have never been anything other than that. This artificial personality of ours may become so strong and impetuous that it may persist even in sleep, so that we are artificial even in sleep. The true nature will not get revealed because of the heavy impact of this artificial set-up of our life.
  The moment we wake up in the morning, we generally tune ourselves to external conditions rather than be ourself and to go deep into our own needs our weaknesses and our strengths. We are placed in this world under such conditions, fortunately or unfortunately, that we have not a moment's rest from the pressure exerted upon us by conditions outside external circumstances. We are always something in terms of something else; we are nothing by our own self. This is very unfortunate and is going to be a great obstacle before us. We are either a brother or a sister, a father or a mother, a friend or an enemy, an officer or a subordinate, this or that. All this is a false personality, because in our own selves we are neither brothers nor sisters, neither fathers nor mothers, neither bosses nor subordinates or servants, or any such thing; all these are only foisted relationships. But these are the things that make our life, and we are only that, and nothing but that. How happy a person feels when he has the opportunity to go on brooding, thinking and contemplating the social status that he holds. He would not like to think that he is a puny animal, bereft of these relationships, when he is divested of all these contacts.

1.00a - DIVISION A - THE INTERNAL FIRES OF THE SHEATHS., #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  In the physical body we have the fires of the lower nature (the animal plane) centralised at the base of the spine. They are situated at a spot which stands in relation to the physical body as the physical sun to the solar system. This central point of heat radiates in all directions, using the spinal column as its main artery, but working in close connection with certain central ganglia, wherever located, and having a special association with the spleen.
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1.00a - Introduction, #Magick Without Tears, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  Your postscript made me smile. It is not a very good advertisement for the kind of people with whom you have been associated in the past. My own position is a very simple one. I obeyed the injunction to "buy a perfectly black hen, without haggling." I have spent over 100,000 pounds of my inherited money on this work: and if I had a thousand times that amount today it would all go in the same direction. It is only when one is built in this way, to stand entirely aloof from all considerations of twopence halfpenny more or fourpence halfpenny less, that one obtains perfect freedom on this Plane of Discs.
  All the serious Orders of the world, or nearly all, begin by insisting that the aspirant should take a vow of poverty; a Buddhist Bhikku, for example, can own only nine objects his three robes, begging bowl, a fan, toothbrush, and so on. The Hindu and Mohammedan Orders have similar regulations; and so do all the important Orders of monkhood in Christianity.
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  If, however, you work at the Qabalah in the same way as I did myself, in season and out of season, you ought to get a very fair grasp of it in six months. I will now tell you what this method is: as I walked about, I made a point of attri buting everything I saw to its appropriate idea. I would walk out of the door of my house and reflect that door is Daleth, and house Beth; now the word "dob" is Hebrew for bear, and has the number 6, which refers to the Sun. Then you come to the fence of your property and that is Cheth number 8, number of Tarot Trump 7, which is the Chariot: so you begin to look about for your car. Then you come to the street and the first house you see is number 86, and that is Elohim, and it is built of red brick which reminds you of Mars and the Blasted Tower, and so on. As soon as this sort of work, which can be done in a quite lighthearted spirit, becomes habitual, you will find your mind running naturally in this direction, and will be surprised at your progress. Never let your mind wander from the fact that your Qabalah is not my Qabalah; a good many of the things which I have noted may be useful to you, but you must construct your own system so that it is a living weapon in your hand.
  I think I am fair if I say that the first step on the Qabalah which may be called success, is when you make an actual discovery which throws light on some problem which has been troubling you. A quarter of a century ago I was in New Orleans, and was very puzzled about my immediate course of action; in fact I may say I was very much distressed. There seemed literally nothing that I could do, so I bethought myself that I had better invoke Mercury. As soon as I got into the appropriate frame of mind, it naturally occurred to me, with a sort of joy, "But I am Mercury." I put it into Latin Mercurius sum, and suddenly something struck me, a sort of nameless reaction which said: "That's not quite right." Like a flash it came to me to put it into Greek, which gave me "' " and adding that up rapidly, I got the number 418, with all the marvellous correspondences which had been so abundantly useful to me in the past (See Equinox of the Gods, p. 138). My troubles disappeared like a flash of lightning.

1.00d - Introduction, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  Because Truth is simple. It is the simplest thing in the world that is why we do not see it. There is but one Thing in the world, not two, as the modern physicists and mathematicians have begun to realize, and as a child well knows as he smiles at the waves on a sun-swept beach where the same foam seems to have rolled in since the beginning of time, recalling a great rhythm that wells up out of ancient memory and weaves days and sorrows into a single story, so old it feels like an unchanging presence, so encompassing in its immensity it even embraces the glides of a sea gull. And everything is contained in one second, the sum of all ages and all souls, all within one simple little point glistening for an instant on the wild foam. But we have lost that point, and that smile, and the singing second. So we have tried to restore that Oneness by addition: 1+1+1... like our computers, as if adding up all possible knowledge from every conceivable direction would finally yield the right note, the one note that brings forth song and moves the worlds and the heart of a forgotten child. We have tried to manufacture that Simplicity for every pocketbook, but the more we multiplied our clever push buttons, to simplify life, the farther away the bird flew, and the smile even the sparkling foam is polluted by our equations. We are not even entirely sure our body is still ours the beautiful Machine has devoured everything.
  Yet that one Thing is also the one and only Power because what shines in one point shines also in all other points. Once that is understood, all the rest is understood; there is but one Power in the world, not two. Even a child knows that: he is king, he is invulnerable. But the child grows up; he forgets. And men have grown up, and nations and civilizations, each in its own way seeking the Great Secret, the simple secret through war and conquest, through meditation or magic, through beauty, religion or science. Though, in truth, we do not know who is most advanced: the Acropolis builder, the Theban magician, the Cape Kennedy astronaut, or the Cistercian monk, for one has rejected life in order to understand it, one has embraced it without understanding it, another has left a trace of beauty, and still another, a white trail in a changeless sky we are merely the last on the list, that's all. And we still have not found our magic. The point, the potent little point, is still there on the open beach of the world; it shines for whoever will seize it, just as it shone before we were humans under the stars.

1.00e - DIVISION E - MOTION ON THE PHYSICAL AND ASTRAL PLANES, #A Treatise on Cosmic Fire, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  Let us withdraw our thought at this juncture from the informing Consciousnesses of these three types of spheres, and concentrate our attention upon the realisation that each plane is a vast sphere of matter, actuated by latent heat and progressing or rotating in one particular direction. Each ray of light, no matter of what colour, is likewise a sphere of matter of the utmost tenuity, rotating in a direction opposite to that of the planes. These rays produce by their mutual interaction a radiatory effect upon each other. Thus by the approximation of the latent heat in matter, and the interplay of that heat upon other spheres that totality is produced which we call "fire by friction."
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  This can be predicated likewise of the entire ring-pass-not of the solar system in relation to its cosmic environment. Force flows into the solar system from three directions via three channels:
  a. The sun Sirius,
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  4. The Circle divided into four. This is the true circle of matter, the equal armed cross of the Holy Spirit, Who is the personification of active intelligent matter. This shows the fourth dimensional quality of matter and the penetration of the fire in four directions, its threefold radiation being symbolised by the triangles formed by the fourfold cross. This portrays the fourfold revolution of any atom. By this is not meant the ability of any atom to make four revolutions, but the fourth dimensional quality of the revolution which is the goal aimed at, and which is even now becoming known in matter during this [161] fourth round, and in this fourth chain. As the fifth spirilla or fifth stream of force in an atom becomes developed, and man can conceive of a fourth-dimensional rotary movement, the accuracy of this symbol will be recognised. It will then be seen that all sheaths in their progress from inertia to rhythm, via mobility, pass through all stages, whether they are logoic sheaths, the rays in which the Heavenly Men veil Themselves, the planes which form the bodies of certain solar entities, the causal body (or the sheath of the Ego on the mental plane), the human physical body in its etheric constitution, or a cell in that body etheric. All these material forms (existent in etheric matter which is the true matter of all forms) are primarily undifferentiated ovoids; they then become actively rotating or manifest latent heat; next they manifest duality or latent and radiatory fire; the expression of these two results in fourth dimensional action or the wheel or rotary form turning upon itself.
  5. The swastika, or the fire extending not only from the periphery to the centre in four directions, but gradually circulating and radiating from and around the entire periphery. This signifies completed activity in every department of matter until finally we have a blazing, fiery wheel, turning every way, with radiant channels of fire from the centre to the ring-pass-not,fire within, without and around until the wheel is consumed and there is naught remaining but perfected fire.
  V. MOTION AND THE CENTRES
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  All these different periods show different triangular radiances. We must not infer from this that when the fire is centred in one triangle it is not demonstrating in others. Once the fire has free passage along any triangle it flames continuously, but always there is one triangle more radiant and luminous than the others, and it is from these glowing triangles of light, issuing from wheels and vortices of fire that the clairvoyant and the teachers of the race can appraise a man's position in the scheme of things, and judge of his attainment. At the culmination of life experience, and when man has reached his goal, each triangle is a radiant path of fire, and each centre a wheel of living fiery force rotating at terrific speed; the centre at this stage not only rotates in a specific direction, but literally turns upon itself, forming a living flaming iridescent globe of pure fire, and holding within it a certain geometrical shape, yet withal vibrating so rapidly that the eye can scarcely follow it. Above all, at the top of the head will be seen a fiery display that seems to put all the other centres into insignificance; from the heart of this many-petalled lotus issues a flame of fire with the basic hue of a man's ray. This flame [171] mounts upward and seems to attract downward a sheet of electric light, which is the downflow from the spirit on the highest plane. This marks the blending of the fires and the deliverance of man from the trammels of matter.
  We might now note that the evolution of these centres of force can be portrayed, not only in words, but under the same five symbols that have so often a cosmic interpretation.
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  3. The divided circle. At this stage the point of light in the centre of the vortex of fire is becoming more active; rotary motion causes it to burn more brightly, and to cast off rays of fire in two directions, which appear to split the vortex into two; the motion is much accelerated, and the dividing flame in the vortex shoots back and forth, stimulating the glow of the centre itself, till a much greater point of radiance is achieved. This corresponds to Atlantean days.
  4. The circle divided into four. We come now to the point where the centre is exceedingly active, with the cross within its periphery rotating as well as the wheel itself, and causing an effect of great beauty and activity. The man has reached a stage of very high development [172] mentally, corresponding to the fifth root-race, or to the fifth round in the larger cycle; he is conscious of two activities within himself, symbolised by the rotating wheel and the inner rotating cross. He is sensing the spiritual, though actively functioning in the personal life, and the development has reached a point wherein he is nearing the Probationary Path.
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  Hearing gives him an idea of relative direction, and enables a man to fix his place in the scheme and to locate himself.
  Touch gives him an idea of relative quantity and enables him to fix his relative value as regards other bodies, extraneous to himself.
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  But all that is grasped by the dormant consciousness (by means of this one sense of hearing) is the fact of something extraneous to itself, and of the direction in which that something lies. This apprehension, in course of time, calls into being another sense, that of touch. The Law of Attraction works, the consciousness moves slowly outwards towards that which is heard; and when contact is made with the not-self it is called touch. This touch conveys other ideas to the groping consciousness, ideas of size, of external texture, and of surface differences; the concept of the Thinker is thus slowly enlarged. He can hear and feel, but as yet knows not enough to correlate nor name. When he succeeds in naming, he has made a big stride forward. We might note here, therefore, that the earliest cosmic symbols are applicable to the senses as well as elsewhere:
  The point in the centreconsciousness and the not-self at a stage where sound alone is descriptive.
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  c. By the application of the Rod of Initiation the downflow of force from the Ego to the personality is tripled, the direction of that force being dependent upon whether the centres receiving attention are the etheric, or the astral at the first and second Initiations, or whether the initiate is standing before the LORD OF THE WORLD. In the latter case, his mental centres or their corresponding force vortices on higher levels, will receive stimulation. When the World Teacher initiates at the first and second Initiations, the direction of the Triadal force is turned to the vivification of the heart, and throat centres, and the ability to synthesise the force of the lower centres is greatly increased. When the One Initiator applies the Rod of His Power, the downflow is from the Monad, and though the throat and heart intensify vibration as a response, the main direction of the force is to the seven head centres, and finally (at liberation) to the radiant head centre above, and synthesising the lesser seven head centres.
  d. The centres at initiation receive a fresh access of [209] vibratory capacity and of power, and this results, in the exoteric life, as:

1.00 - Main, #The Book of Certitude, #Baha u llah, #Baha i
  The peoples of the world are fast asleep. Were they to wake from their slumber, they would hasten with eagerness unto God, the All-Knowing, the All-Wise. They would cast away everything they possess, be it all the treasures of the earth, that their Lord may remember them to the extent of addressing to them but one word. Such is the instruction given you by Him Who holdeth the knowledge of things hidden, in a Tablet which the eye of creation hath not seen, and which is revealed to none except His own Self, the omnipotent Protector of all worlds. So bewildered are they in the drunkenness of their evil desires, that they are powerless to recognize the Lord of all being, Whose voice calleth aloud from every direction: "There is none other God but Me, the Mighty, the All-Wise."
  Say: Rejoice not in the things ye possess; tonight they are yours, tomorrow others will possess them. Thus warneth you He Who is the All-Knowing, the All-Informed. Say: Can ye claim that what ye own is lasting or secure? Nay! By Myself, the All-Merciful, ye cannot, if ye be of them who judge fairly. The days of your life flee away as a breath of wind, and all your pomp and glory shall be folded up as were the pomp and glory of those gone before you. Reflect, O people!
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  Such are the words with which My Forerunner hath extolled My Being, could ye but understand. Whoso reflecteth upon these verses, and realizeth what hidden pearls have been enshrined within them, will, by the righteousness of God, perceive the fragrance of the All-Merciful wafting from the direction of this Prison and will, with his whole heart, hasten unto Him with such ardent longing that the hosts of earth and heaven would be powerless to deter him. Say: This is a Revelation around which every proof and testimony doth circle. Thus hath it been sent down by your Lord, the God of Mercy, if ye be of them that judge aright. Say: This is the very soul of all Scriptures which hath been breathed into the Pen of the Most High, causing all created beings to be dumbfounded, save only those who have been enraptured by the gentle breezes of My loving-kindness and the sweet savours of My bounties which have pervaded the whole of creation.
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1.00 - PREFACE - DESCENSUS AD INFERNOS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  had to offer, and no longer had any practical reasons to continue in my original direction. I finished my
  three-year bachelors degree, and left university. All my beliefs which had lent order to the chaos of my

10.10 - Education is Organisation, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Education is organisation. Mind's education means organisation of mental faculties. Organisation naturally involves development. The faculties in the normal and natural state are an undeveloped disorganised lot, a confused mass,unformed, ill-formed ideas, notions, thoughts, form a jumble. They have no purpose, no direction, no common impulse or end, each runs in its own way. The mind's faculties such for example as attention, memory, discrimination, reasoning, cogent thinking have to be clear and efficient and learn how to work harmoniously for a common objective. In the process and for that purpose they have to be developed, that is to say each of them has to be strong, able, ample, concentrated. They have to present a united front and function towards an ever increasing consciousness and knowledge.
   As for the mental faculties so for the faculties of the vital. The normal vital being in man is in a greater and perhaps more dangerous chaos. The impulsions, emotions, upsurges that belong to this domain have not so much to be developed or increased as to be purified, made conscious, yoked together in a common drive towards a harmonious dynamic realisation in life and life's achievements. And lastly the organisation in the physical body. The limbs of the body have not even growth, they do not move together in a balanced and rhythmic way. Some are unhealthy, some do not work, some others are overworked. These too have to be co-ordinated, each set in its place and made to function in unison with others. That is physical education and that too means perfect organisation.

1.010 - Self-Control - The Alpha and Omega of Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  It has been discovered now, therefore, that perceptions are due to a segmentation of consciousness. This is the secret behind our life in this world. And inasmuch as our perceptional experiences are involved in a condition of consciousness which is inseparable from our own being, we cannot know the reason why we see things. Consequently, we cannot know why we like things or dislike things. Our knowledge becomes half-baked, inadequate, and erroneous when the conditions of all knowledge lie behind our capacities. Thus it is that often it looks as if we are completely under the control of pressures that are exerted from above and behind, from the right and the left, from every direction a fact of which we cannot have any awareness. It is, therefore, useless to apply scientific methods of knowing or investigation in regard to matters which are the very conditions of knowing.
  This is something which goes deeper than even psychology, because all knowledge even of the mind, which is what we know as psychology is gained by an observational technique employed by the mind in an objective manner, as if it is observing somebody else, and the only thing that the mind cannot do is to know itself or to know the conditions of its own functioning. The relationships of the mind and the conditions of knowledge determine the very existence and the character of the mind, and therefore it is that we find ourselves in a helpless condition. The practice of yoga becomes all the more difficult when it deals with conditions prior to our present state of existence, when it deals with causes rather than effects, and especially causes that lie 'behind' us which are precedent to our present physical and social condition.
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  The effect, which is this individuality of ours, is nothing but a spatial and temporal projection of a particular condition called the cause. The more we become externalised, the more we become spatial and temporal. The more we go towards the cause internally, the less is the pressure exerted on us by space, time and relevant conditions. But the more we proceed further and further in an external direction towards space, time and objects, the more we become automatons, more and more enslaved, more and more helpless, more and more puppets, as it were. We become more and more free and autonomous the more we withdraw ourselves from spatial and temporal conditions and tend to be what we are in our own selves. The causes of our existence as individuals are not capable of being known by the mind, because these causes drive even the mind in a particular way for its function in space and in time.
  The whole of yoga is self-control in one word, 'self-mastery' in the sense that the rays of the mind and the senses, the projecting powers of individuality, have to be brought back to their source in order that there may be consciousness of the cause. There cannot be a consciousness of the cause as long as the cause is not the object of consciousness, inasmuch as the latter is involved in the externalised activity of the mind and the senses. We cannot know an object unless the consciousness follows this cognitive act and enlivens the senses, activates them towards the object which is seen, cognised or perceived by them. On account of this engagement of consciousness through the mind and the senses in respect of objects outside and in all acts of perception and cognition, it finds no time to revert to its cause. We have no time. The consciousness cannot find time to become aware of its own background, inasmuch as it is heavily engaged and is very busy throughout the day and the night in attending to the needs of the mind and the senses in their activity of projection externally to objects. So, to become aware of the cause would be to enable the consciousness to revert itself in that direction inwardly for which purpose it has to be withdrawn, tentatively at least, in an appreciable measure, from its engagement in objective perception through the mind and the senses.
  All perceptions are, therefore, engagements of consciousness, which prevents it from knowing its own background and conditions of action, so that when we are busily engaged in the perceptions and cognitions through the mind and the senses, we cannot know our own background, and we look helpless. The necessity for self-control arises merely because of the fact that the object of our quest is inherently present in the very act of our individual experience, and it cannot be observed by the ordinary means of an academic character or a scientific nature. Here we need no instruments, no types of apparatus either for observation or knowledge, because the object here is the background of our own self. There are causes behind causes, extending one behind the other, and lying one behind the other in larger and larger expansiveness one implying the other, and one inclusive of the other. The causes that are precedent are inclusive of the causes that are succeeding, so that when we go higher up we do not lose anything that is lower, but get everything that is lower in a refined form by transcendence.
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  It is dangerous to miss practice even for one day. Why is it so? It is dangerous because the senses will revolt, and once they revolt we cannot control them. They will gain the upper hand and we will be finished, and all the good that we have done for months and years will be in dust. We are warned that carelessness is equal to death. It is better to die than be careless in this practice. It is like touching dynamite. One has to be cautious. So why is self-control necessary? It is necessary because that is the return of the mind and consciousness to its own healthy condition of higher expansiveness. It is also necessary that we should not miss the practice. If we miss it for a period in the middle, the controlled senses gain the opportunity to revolt and exert a pressure with such vehemence that our whole personality will be driven by a blast of wind in a direction which is contrary to what is expected.
  So while self-control is extremely difficult, to miss the practice of self-control is extremely dangerous. Hence, the guidance of a Guru is called for, and earnestness of practice is also requisite. Conducive atmosphere, suitable company, activity commensurate with the nature of the goal, and the presence of a competent master or a Guru all these are indispensable requisites in the practice of yoga.

1.012 - Sublimation - A Way to Reshuffle Thought, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  In our system, the culture of Bharatvarsha, four aims of existence are always emphasised dharma, artha, kama and moksha. None of them can be ignored. There are people who are fired up with an enthusiasm for moksha, and under this impulse of a love for moksha or salvation of the soul, an immature mind may apply the wrong technique of forcing the will to abandon the real values of life, namely dharma, artha and kama, under the impression that they are obstacles to the salvation of the soul or the liberation of the spirit. Most people commit this mistake, and so they achieve neither anything in this world nor anything in the other world they live a miserable life. They have not been properly instructed, and so have taken a wrong direction altogether.
  The culture of yoga does not tell us to reject, abandon, or to cut off anything if it is real, because the whole question is an assessment of values, and reality is, of course, the background of every value. What is achieved in spiritual education is a rise of consciousness from a lower degree of reality to a higher degree of reality, and in no degree is there a rejection of reality. It is only a growth from a lower level to a higher one. So when we go to the higher degree of reality, we are not rejecting the lower degree of reality, but rather we have overcome it. We have transcended it, just as when a student goes to a higher class in an educational career, that higher class transcends the lower degrees of kindergarten, first standard, second standard and third standard, but it does not reject them. Rejection is not what is implied; rather it is an absorption of values into a higher inclusive condition of understanding, insight and education.
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  Before we take to a positive practice in the direction of yoga, a careful calculation of the number of desires, their nature, etc., is necessary. If there are desires, what is to be done with them? Are we to fulfil them, or are we not to fulfil them? The traditional religions tell us 'don't fulfil desires'. Parents tell us 'don't fulfil desires', and so on. This is all right, as far as it goes, because generally a desire is regarded as a kind of diversion of consciousness from its own centre to an object outside. So, theoretically speaking, this instruction is all right we must control our desires and not give them a long rope. But how will we control our desires? What is the method? There is no use in merely saying 'control desires'. This is very good and this instruction can be given, but how do we control a desire? What is the technique that we adopt? Here, book-knowledge is of no use. Even our intellect will not help us much because it will waver sometimes to this side and sometimes to that side.
  First of all, we must determine the intensity of the desire before we try to deal with it. The desire may be very mild, or it may be very intense. If it is mild, we may take one course of action towards it. If it is very intense, another course may have to be taken. Like a fever suppose it is only a very mild fever, 98.8, for which we need not go to the doctor for medication, and we need not lie down in bed; it is very mild. We can fast one day take a purgative and fast and perhaps it will be all right. But it is not all right if the fever is 105; then we have to do something immediately because it has risen beyond a certain limit.
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  Another way of dealing with a desire is substitution instead of giving it one thing, we give it another thing. If we have a craving to smoke a cigar, we drink a strong cup of coffee instead; some milder substance is given. Or if a child is crying and throwing a tantrum, demanding a knife that we are holding, for good reason we will not give the knife to the child, so we will substitute another thing such as a sweetmeat or a toy for the knife, saying, "My dear child, this is not a good thing. I will give you something better." Instead of a knife, we give a toy. We substitute one thing for the other thing that was asked for. This is a better way, of course, than suppression, though it is not a complete solution. Merely because we have diverted the course of the river from one direction to another, it does not mean that the intensity of its flow has ceased.
  The third way to handle desire, which is the only effective course, is sublimation. Sublimation is the only technique to be adopted. Sublimation means boiling, melting and transforming the desire into a new substance altogether. The desire is no longer a desire; it has become something else. The shape of the desire has changed, and it has now become something quite different from what it was. This is the most difficult of all the techniques of self-control. The emotions are the motive power behind our thoughts, will and actions. Whatever we do is generally driven from behind by an emotion, like a dynamo, and this emotion is connected with desire. The desire is inseparable from an emotion. An emotion need not necessarily be a kind of upheaval of feeling. That upheaval is felt only when the desire is very intense. Otherwise, it is like a mild ripple on the surface of a lake. When it becomes very intense it is like a strong wave on the ocean, throwing everything hither and thither nevertheless, it is an emotion.
  What is emotion? Now we come to another subject in psychology. An emotion is a wave in consciousness. As I mentioned, when it is mild, it is like a small ripple. When it is very strong, it is like a very turbulent wave of the Atlantic which can wash away things - even elephants can be drowned if the wave comes rising up with great power. A wave in consciousness is an emotion. And what is this wave? It is a tendency towards the achievement of an objective. This wave is a frequency, and a frequency of consciousness is the intensity of consciousness. This frequency or intensity of consciousness, which rises as a wave called an emotion, is directed towards an end, just as the waves in an ocean dash against the shore or against another wave. There is a push of the body of water in the ocean in a particular direction; that push is the cause of the wave, whatever be the reason behind the push. Some pressure is felt from inside, due to the wind or some other factor, so the wave is directed in some way. Likewise, the consciousness rises in a tempestuous mood like a wave, and that is an uncontrollable emotion. This tempest can do anything if it is uncontrolled.
  The point is that the difficulty in controlling an emotion arises on account of the vehemence with which it moves towards an object. The emotion is a tendency towards an object. The object may be physical, or it could even be psychological. Suppose we want to raise our social status. This is a psychological object that is in front of us, towards which we are working. Let us say that we want to become a chairman, or a minister, or some such thing. This object that is in front of us is psychological, not physical, because chairmanship is not a physical object, though it is as powerful an object as anything else; that is the end towards which the consciousness drives itself. It can also be a physical object towards which the consciousness rushes. Why does it rush towards an object, whether it be physical or psychological? It wants to fulfil a purpose.
  Consciousness does not move in a direction without a purpose; and if the purpose is meaningful, at least from its own point of view, nobody can resist it. It sees a meaning in the way in which it moves towards the object, and when the meaning is there, then naturally nobody can control it. "I see significance in it. There is a purpose behind it and there is a reason a very good reason for my action in that direction," says consciousness. So the question of controlling the movement of consciousness does not arise. If the movement is meaningless, we may control it; but if it is meaningful, how can we control it? So, the resisting of the vehemence of consciousness in the direction of an object is possible only if the meaning that it reads into the object is sublimated.
  As long as we see a meaning in a thing, there is no doubt about it, and nobody else can influence us. No law, no order will work against a meaning that is seen by a person with open eyes. If I tell you that it is midnight, you will not believe it. "Why are you saying it is midnight? You can see it is daylight." We have faith that it is daytime on account of our clear perception of daylight. We are seeing it directly, and why is someone saying it is something else? So when consciousness sees a peculiar and definite meaning or significance in an object in front of it which it regards as valuable, worthwhile and necessary for its happiness, then no law or order will operate against it. It breaks all laws, be they social, personal, or moral any law, whatever it is because it is the law of reality, and the law of reality is more powerful than any other law that is made by man. Why is it called the law of reality? It is called the law of reality because it is seen physically as an indubitable something about which there is no doubt in the mind, and we cannot frame a law contrary to what we see physically and palpably as something real.

1.013 - Defence Mechanisms of the Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  All of these are inside the body not in the sense of pebbles in a bottle, but inseparably permeating everything that is in the body, or that is the body. We cannot separate the intellect, the mind, the senses, the prana, the body, etc. One is involved in the other, so it looks like a compound that has been created by these elements. For some purposes they look like different functions, but for other purposes they look as if they are a single force, acting in different ways. So, self-control would mean a judicious control exercised over every function inside, including the physical functions, the function of the prana, the senses, the mind and the intellect. All of these have to be harnessed in a given direction.
  According to ancient systems of spiritual practice, self-control is effected by three main methods: the control of the prana, the control of the mind, and concentration of consciousness. These are the three standard methods of atma vinigrah or self-control. This is a triple method prescribed in the Yoga Vasishtha, for instance. It does not mean that each method is mutually exclusive of the other; they are connected with one another. Also, it is not possible here to say which should precede and which should succeed. Are we to control the prana first and the mind afterwards, or the mind first and the prana afterwards, or are we to practise concentration first? We cannot do all of these things in a linear fashion. They all have to be worked at simultaneously in some acceptable degree.
  In the Bhagavadgita, we have a hint of the method of self control where, in a very cryptic sloka, Bhagavan Sri Krishna says that the senses are turbulent and cannot be easily controlled unless resort is taken to a higher principle than the senses themselves: indriyi paryhurindriyebhya para mana, manasastu par buddhiryo buddhe paratastu sa (B.G. III.42). This is the verse which is relevant to this subject. The senses cannot be controlled because they are driven by a force which is behind them. As long as they are driven, pushed or compelled by a power that is behind them, they will naturally act in the direction of that push. So we have to exert some kind of pressure upon the power that is driving the senses towards objects. Otherwise, it would be like ordering the servants to work in a particular way while their master is saying something else which is contrary to our advice to the servants. We have to approach the master himself so that he may not direct the servants in a wrong manner or say something undesirable to them. So there is a master behind the senses, and unless this master is approached, the senses cannot be controlled. For all immediate purposes, we can regard the mind as the master and the senses as the servants. The senses cannot be controlled if the mind is not properly tackled, because the mind is the force that urges the senses towards objects. But there is a difficulty in controlling even the mind, because the mind orders the senses to move towards objects, on account of a misconception, so unless this misconception is removed we cannot do anything with the mind.
  As discussed previously, a sense of reality harasses the mind in respect of the objects of sense, and as long as anything appears as real, it cannot be abrogated or rejected; and we cannot close our eyes to it if it has already been declared to be real. The mind will find difficulty in withdrawing its orders to the senses in respect of their movement towards objects as long as it cognises a worthwhile reality in the objects of sense. Why does the mind see a sense of reality in the objects of sense? It is due to a peculiar situation that has arisen, which is the reason behind why the mind is accepting these perceptions through the senses.
  What is this peculiar situation? The situation, precisely, is a misplacement of the values of life by a limitation of consciousness to a location called the individual. Therefore, yo buddhe paratastu sa there is something higher than the buddhi (the intellect) and the mind, in which we have to take refuge in order that even the mind may be directed along proper channels. Inasmuch as the mind is the general who orders the senses, if it has been instructed properly and advised well, then naturally it will give instructions to the senses accordingly. It comes finally to this: we have to take refuge in the Self not in the individual self, but in the higher self, whose principle alone can regenerate the mind and remove the miscalculated attitudes of the mind in respect of things, consequently enabling the mind to properly direct the senses in a desirable direction.
  The special term used in the Yoga Vasishtha for this kind of practice of the principle of the Self behind all things is 'brahmabhyasa'. Brahmabhyasa or atmabhyasa is the practice of the presence of God. A Christian mystic called Brother Lawrence used to practise this technique called 'The Practice of the Presence of God'. The technique involved the practise of the presence of God in everything. It is quite clear that the recognition of the presence of God in things will prevent us from going wrong because, in the presence of God, we would not do anything undesirable. So the recognition of the presence of God in all things is the final remedy for the errors of the mind, and subsequently, of course, of the mistaken movements of the senses.
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  These mechanisms of the mind are to be studied very well before we try to adopt the method of self-control. Otherwise, we will be pursuing what they call a wild goose chase and we will get nothing out of our efforts. The mind is a terrible trickster, and it cannot be easily tackled by open methods. Frontal attacks will not always succeed, because these mechanisms of the mind are invisible weapons; they are not visible to the eye. The reactions that the mind sets up in respect of persons outside and things around are indications of the presence of these defence mechanisms. Even when these reactions are set up by the mind in respect of externals, the mechanisms are not made visible we see only reactions, and not the source or the cause of the reactions. They will all be kept hidden so that the nature of a person cannot be known, and even when the person sets up a reaction, that nature is kept secret always. That is another device of the mind. Through all of our outward behaviour and conduct, we cannot be studied properly by a mere look at our faces, because we are very secret inside, looking like something else outside. This deep-rooted secrecy of the mental structure has to be dug out and brought to the surface of consciousness before any successful effort can be made in the direction of self-control.

1.014 - Abraham, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  17. He will guzzle it, but he will not swallow it. Death will come at him from every direction, but he will not die. And beyond this is relentless suffering.
  18. The likeness of those who disbelieve in their Lord: their works are like ashes, in a fierce wind, on a stormy day. They have no control over anything they have earned. That is the utmost misguidance.

1.016 - The Bee, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  112. And God cites the example of a town that was secure and peaceful, with its livelihood coming to it abundantly from every direction. But then it turned unappreciative of God’s blessings, so God made it taste the robe of hunger and fear, because of what they used to craft.
  113. A messenger from among them had come to them, but they denounced him, so the punishment seized them in the midst of their wrongdoing.

10.16 - The Relative Best, #Collected Works of Nolini Kanta Gupta - Vol 04, #Nolini Kanta Gupta, #Integral Yoga
   Whatever happens is for the bestunder the circumstances, it must be added, for the best is the resultant of many forces pulling in all directions for and against and sideways. The best means whatever leads to the goal, to the ultimate good, the final reality, the Supreme, the Divine. The universe is so arranged, the divine dispensation acts in such a way that every event, every circumstance, whatever its appearance, always leads to the Supreme Goal. So it is said the way, whatever it is, straight or crooked, always guides you to your final realisation.
   Only, in the progressive march, the best can always be bettered and must be bettered. In the earlier stages, when one is in ignorance and darkness lies about, the path is sure to be tortuous with ups and downs, aberrations and retrogressions, but as one advances and the consciousness grows the obscurity dissipates, gradually the path too straightens itself, becomes smooth and kindly. That is how the best at one moment, which may appear to the superficial consciousness, very bad or even the worst, is betteredbetterment means precisely this that one rises into a clearer consciousness, one moves along a straighter path, one takes a shorter and happier course to the Goal. This is true as much of the individual as of the world as a whole, for the world too, like the individual, moves inevitably towards its high destiny the same as or parallel to that of the individual.

1.01 - A NOTE ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  even the least of Life's directions, and you will encounter nothing
  but absolute rigidity, an unshakably stubborn refusal to depart
  --
  taken by biological evolution has been in the direction of the
  largest brain broadly speaking, of the highest state of conscious-

1.01 - Economy, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  The whole ground of human life seems to some to have been gone over by their predecessors, both the heights and the valleys, and all things to have been cared for. According to Evelyn, the wise Solomon prescribed ordinances for the very distances of trees; and the Roman prtors have decided how often you may go into your neighbors land to gather the acorns which fall on it without trespass, and what share belongs to that neighbor. Hippocrates has even left directions how we should cut our nails; that is, even with the ends of the fingers, neither shorter nor longer. Undoubtedly the very tedium and ennui which presume to have exhausted the variety and the joys of life are as old as Adam. But mans capacities have never been measured; nor are we to judge of what he can do by any precedents, so little has been tried. Whatever have been thy failures hitherto, be not afflicted, my child, for who shall assign to thee what thou hast left undone?
  We might try our lives by a thousand simple tests; as, for instance, that the same sun which ripens my beans illumines at once a system of earths like ours. If I had remembered this it would have prevented some mistakes. This was not the light in which I hoed them. The stars are the apexes of what wonderful triangles! What distant and different beings in the various mansions of the universe are contemplating the same one at the same moment! Nature and human life are as various as our several constitutions. Who shall say what prospect life offers to another? Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each others eyes for an instant? We should live in all the ages of the world in an hour; ay, in all the worlds of the ages. History, Poetry,

1.01 - Foreward, #Hymns to the Mystic Fire, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  That was the general aspect of the ancient worship in Greece, Rome, India and among other ancient peoples. But in all these countries these gods began to assume a higher, a psychological function; Pallas Athene who may have been originally a Dawn-Goddess springing in flames from the head of Zeus, the Sky-God, Dyaus of the Veda, has in classical Greece a higher function and was identified by the Romans with their Minerva, the Goddess of learning and wisdom; similarly, Saraswati, a river Goddess, becomes in India the goddess of wisdom, learning and the arts and crafts: all the Greek deities have undergone a change in this direction - Apollo, the Sun-God, has become a god of poetry and prophecy, Hephaestus the Fire-God a divine smith, god of labour. In India the process was arrested half-way, and the Vedic Gods developed their psychological functions but retained more fixedly their external character and for higher purposes gave place to a new pantheon. They had to give precedence to Puranic deities who developed out of the early company but assumed larger cosmic functions, Vishnu, Rudra, Brahma - developing from the Vedic Brihaspati, or Brahmanaspati, - Shiva, Lakshmi, Durga. Thus in India the change in the gods was less complete, the earlier deities became the inferior divinities of the Puranic pantheon and this was largely due to the survival of the Rig Veda in which their psychological and their external functions co-existed and are both given a powerful emphasis; there was no such early literary record to maintain the original features of the Gods of Greece and Rome.
  This change was evidently due to a cultural development in these early peoples who became progressively more mentalised and less engrossed in the physical life as they advanced in civilisation and needed to read into their religion and their deities finer and subtler aspects which would support their more highly mentalised concepts and interests and find for them a true spiritual being or some celestial figure as their support and sanction.

1.01 - How is Knowledge Of The Higher Worlds Attained?, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
  The methods by which a student is prepared for the reception of higher knowledge are minutely prescribed. The direction he is to take is traced with unfading, everlasting letters in the worlds of the spirit where the initiates guard the higher secrets. In ancient times, anterior to our history, the temples of the spirit were also outwardly visible; today, because our life has become so unspiritual, they are not to be found in the world visible to external sight; yet they are present spiritually everywhere, and all who seek may find them.
  Only within his own soul can a man find the means to unseal the lips of an initiate. He must develop within himself certain faculties to a definite degree, and then the highest treasures of the spirit can become his own.
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  This calm and serenity react on the whole being. They assist the growth of the inner man, and, with the inner man, those faculties also grow which lead to higher knowledge. For it is by his progress in this direction that the student gradually reaches the point where he himself determines the manner in which the impressions of the outer world shall affect him. Thus he may hear a word spoken with the object of wounding or vexing him. Formerly it would indeed have wounded or vexed him, but now that he treads
   p. 26
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  With firm step the student passes through life. No matter what it may bring him, he goes forward erect. In the past he knew not why he labored and suffered, but now he knows. It is obvious that such meditation leads more surely to the goal if conducted under the direction of experienced persons who know of themselves how everything may best be done; and their advice and guidance should be sought. Truly, no one loses his freedom thereby. What would otherwise be mere uncertain groping in the dark becomes under this direction purposeful work. All who
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1.01 - MAPS OF EXPERIENCE - OBJECT AND MEANING, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  the direction such use is to take has been determined, through application of more fundamental narrative
  processes).
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  all directions? Is there any up or down left? Are we not straying as through an infinite nothing? Do we
  not feel the breath of empty space? Has it not become colder? Is not night and more night coming on all
  --
  determination of value to consideration of what should be, to specification of the direction that things
  should take (which means, to description of the future we should construct, as a consequence of our
  --
  have a person making the journey and the road, path, or direction taken, the simplest word for this being
  way. Journey is a word connected with jour and journee, and metaphorical journeys, deriving as they

1.01 - MASTER AND DISCIPLE, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  When the meeting broke up, the devotees sauntered in the temple garden. M. went in the direction of the Panchavati. It was about five o'clock in the afternoon. After a while he returned to the Master's room. There, on the small north verandah, he witnessed an amazing sight.
  Sri Ramakrishna was standing still, surrounded by a few devotees, and Narendra was singing. M. had never heard anyone except the Master sing so sweetly. When he looked at Sri Ramakrishna he was struck with wonder; for the Master stood motionless, with eyes transfixed. He seemed not even to breathe. A devotee told M. that the Master was in samadhi. M. had never before seen or heard of such a thing. Silent with wonder, he thought: "Is it possible for a man to be so oblivious of the outer world in the consciousness of God? How deep his faith and devotion must be to bring about such a state!"

1.01 - Newtonian and Bergsonian Time, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  save of initial positions and directions between the motion of an
  orrery turned forward and one run in reverse. Finally, when all
  --
  stars whose evolution is in the reverse direction, they will attract
  radiation from the whole heavens, and even this attraction from
  --
  the direction of time is uniform.
  To return to the contrast between Newtonian astronomy and
  --
  in one direction. The theory of tidal evolution is quite definitely
  an astronomical application of the elder Darwin.
  --
  the main lines of the direction of development of the modern
  machine, nor do they seem to have had much of an influence on

1.01 - Our Demand and Need from the Gita, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
   of Life in our divine scope as the Lila2 of the Divine; and in some directions it is more immediately rich and fruitful, for it brings forward into the foreground along with divine knowledge, divine works and an enriched devotion of divine Love, the secrets also of the Hatha and Raja Yogas, the use of the body and of mental askesis for the opening up of the divine life on all its planes, to which the Gita gives only a passing and perfunctory attention. Moreover it grasps at that idea of the divine perfectibility of man, possessed by the Vedic Rishis but thrown into the background by the intermediate ages, which is destined to fill so large a place in any future synthesis of human thought, experience and aspiration.
  We of the coming day stand at the head of a new age of development which must lead to such a new and larger synthesis. We are not called upon to be orthodox Vedantins of any of the three schools or Tantrics or to adhere to one of the theistic religions of the past or to entrench ourselves within the four corners of the teaching of the Gita. That would be to limit ourselves and to attempt to create our spiritual life out of the being, knowledge and nature of others, of the men of the past, instead of building it out of our own being and potentialities. We do not belong to the past dawns, but to the noons of the future. A mass of new material is flowing into us; we have not only to assimilate the influences of the great theistic religions of India and of the world and a recovered sense of the meaning of Buddhism, but to take full account of the potent though limited revelations of modern knowledge and seeking; and, beyond that, the remote and dateless past which seemed to be dead is returning upon us with an effulgence of many luminous secrets long lost to the consciousness of mankind but now breaking out again from behind the veil. All this points to a new, a very rich, a very vast synthesis; a fresh and widely embracing harmonisation of our gains is both an intellectual and a spiritual necessity of the future.

1.01 - Prayer, #Bhakti-Yoga, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
  "Meditation again is a constant remembrance (of the thing meditated upon) flowing like an unbroken stream of oil poured out from one vessel to another. When this kind of remembering has been attained (in relation to God) all bandages break. Thus it is spoken of in the scriptures regarding constant remembering as a means to liberation. This remembering again is of the same form as seeing, because it is of the same meaning as in the passage, 'When He who is far and near is seen, the bonds of the heart are broken, all doubts vanish, and all effects of work disappear' He who is near can be seen, but he who is far can only be remembered. Nevertheless the scripture says that he have to see Him who is near as well as Him who, is far, thereby indicating to us that the above kind of remembering is as good as seeing. This remembrance when exalted assumes the same form as seeing. . . . Worship is constant remembering as may be seen from the essential texts of scriptures. Knowing, which is the same as repeated worship, has been described as constant remembering. . . . Thus the memory, which has attained to the height of what is as good as direct perception, is spoken of in the Shruti as a means of liberation. 'This Atman is not to be reached through various sciences, nor by intellect, nor by much study of the Vedas. Whomsoever this Atman desires, by him is the Atman attained, unto him this Atman discovers Himself.' Here, after saying that mere hearing, thinking and meditating are not the means of attaining this Atman, it is said, 'Whom this Atman desires, by him the Atman is attained.' The extremely beloved is desired; by whomsoever this Atman is extremely beloved, he becomes the most beloved of the Atman. So that this beloved may attain the Atman, the Lord Himself helps. For it has been said by the Lord: 'Those who are constantly attached to Me and worship Me with love I give that direction to their will by which they come to Me.' Therefore it is said that, to whomsoever this remembering, which is of the same form as direct perception, is very dear, because it is dear to the Object of such memory perception, he is desired by the Supreme Atman, by him the Supreme Atman is attained. This constant remembrance is denoted by the word Bhakti." So says Bhagavn Rmnuja in his commentary on the Sutra Athto Brahma-jijns (Hence follows a dissertation on Brahman.).
  In commenting on the Sutra of Patanjali, Ishvara pranidhndv, i.e. "Or by the worship of the Supreme Lord" Bhoja says, "Pranidhna is that sort of Bhakti in which, without seeking results, such as sense-enjoyments etc., all works are dedicated to that Teacher of teachers." Bhagavan Vysa also, when commenting on the same, defines Pranidhana as "the form of Bhakti by which the mercy of the Supreme Lord comes to the Yogi, and blesses him by granting him his desires". According to Shndilya, "Bhakti is intense love to God." The best definition is, however, that given by the king of Bhaktas, Prahlda:

1.01 - SAMADHI PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
  does not give many particular directions about Pranayama,
  but later on other Yogis found out various things about this

1.01 - THAT ARE THOU, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  It is through this central door, and just because it is central, that we shall make our entry into the subject matter of this book. The psychology of the Perennial Philosophy has its source in metaphysics and issues logically in a characteristic way of life and system of ethics. Starting from this midpoint of doctrine, it is easy for the mind to move in either direction.
  In the present section we shall confine our attention to but a single feature of this traditional psychology the most important, the most emphatically insisted upon by all exponents of the Perennial Philosophy and, we may add, the least psychological. For the doctrine that is to be illustrated in this section belongs to autology rather than psychologyto the science, not of the personal ego, but of that eternal Self in the depth of particular, individualized selves, and identical with, or at least akin to, the divine Ground. Based upon the direct experience of those who have fulfilled the necessary conditions of such knowledge, this teaching is expressed most succinctly in the Sanskrit formula, tat tvam asi (That art thou); the Atman, or immanent eternal Self, is one with Brahman, the Absolute Principle of all existence; and the last end of every human being is to discover the fact for himself, to find out Who he really is.

1.01 - the Call to Adventure, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
  league in each direction.
  "Again on a certain day, as the Future Buddha was going to

1.01 - The First Steps, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
  After one has learned to have a firm erect seat, one has to perform, according to certain schools, a practice called the purifying of the nerves. This part has been rejected by some as not belonging to Raja-Yoga, but as so great an authority as the commentator Shankarchrya advises it, I think fit that it should be mentioned, and I will quote his own directions from his commentary on the Shvetshvatara Upanishad: "The mind whose dross has been cleared away by Pranayama, becomes fixed in Brahman; therefore Pranayama is declared. First the nerves are to be purified, then comes the power to practice Pranayama. Stopping the right nostril with the thumb, through the left nostril fill in air, according to capacity; then, without any interval, throw the air out through the right nostril, closing the left one. Again inhaling through the right nostril eject through the left, according to capacity; practicing this three or five times at four hours of the day, before dawn, during midday, in the evening, and at midnight, in fifteen days or a month purity of the nerves is attained; then begins Pranayama."
  Practice is absolutely necessary. You may sit down and listen to me by the hour every day, but if you do not practice, you will not get one step further. It all depends on practice. We never understand these things until we experience them. We will have to see and feel them for ourselves. Simply listening to explanations and theories will not do. There are several obstructions to practice. The first obstruction is an unhealthy body: if the body is not in a fit state, the practice will be obstructed. Therefore we have to keep the body in good health; we have to take care of what we eat and drink, and what we do. Always use a mental effort, what is usually called "Christian Science," to keep the body strong. That is all nothing further of the body. We must not forget that health is only a means to an end. If health were the end, we would be like animals; animals rarely become unhealthy.

1.01 - The Four Aids, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  11:Meanwhile certain general lines have to be formed which may help to guide the thought and practice of the Sadhaka. But these must take, as much as possible, forms of general truths, general statements of principle, the most powerful broad directions of effort and development rather than a fixed system which has to be followed as a routine. All Shastra is the outcome of past experience and a help to future experience. It is an aid and a partial guide. It puts up signposts, gives the names of the main roads and the already explored directions, so that the traveller may know whither and by what paths he is proceeding.
  12:The rest depends on personal effort and experience and upon the power of the Guide.

1.01 - The Highest Meaning of the Holy Truths, #The Blue Cliff Records, #Yuanwu Keqin, #Zen
  any and all directions, free to give or to take away. But say, at
  just such a time, whose actions are these? Look into Hsueh

1.01 - THE OPPOSITES, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  [1] The factors which come together in the coniunctio are conceived as opposites, either confronting one another in enmity or attracting one another in love.1 To begin with they form a dualism; for instance the opposites are humidum (moist) / siccum (dry), frigidum (cold) / calidum (warm), superiora (upper, higher) / inferiora (lower), spiritus-anima (spirit-soul) / corpus (body), coelum (heaven) / terra (earth), ignis (fire) / aqua (water), bright / dark, agens (active) / patiens (passive), volatile (volatile, gaseous) / fixum (solid), pretiosum (precious, costly; also carum, dear) / vile (cheap, common), bonum (good) / malum (evil), manifestum (open) / occultum (occult; also celatum, hidden), oriens (East) / occidens (West), vivum (living) / mortuum (dead, inert), masculus (masculine) / foemina (feminine), Sol / Luna. Often the polarity is arranged as a quaternio (quaternity), with the two opposites crossing one another, as for instance the four elements or the four qualities (moist, dry, cold, warm), or the four directions and seasons,2 thus producing the cross as an emblem of the four elements and symbol of the sublunary physical world.3 This fourfold Physis, the cross, also appears in the signs for earth
  , Venus
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  [3] Another favourite theriomorphic image is that of the two birds or two dragons, one of them winged, the other wingless. This allegory comes from an ancient text, De Chemia Senioris antiquissimi philosophi libellus.11 The wingless bird or dragon prevents the other from flying. They stand for Sol and Luna, brother and sister, who are united by means of the art.12 In Lambspringks Symbols13 they appear as the astrological Fishes which, swimming in opposite directions, symbolize the spirit / soul polarity. The water they swim in is mare nostrum (our sea) and is interpreted as the body.14 The fishes are without bones and cortex.15 From them is produced a mare immensum, which is the aqua permanens (permanent water). Another symbol is the stag and unicorn meeting in the forest.16 The stag signifies the soul, the unicorn spirit, and the forest the body. The next two pictures in Lambspringks Symbols show the lion and lioness,17 or the wolf and dog, the latter two fighting; they too symbolize soul and spirit. In Figure VII the opposites are symbolized by two birds in a wood, one fledged, the other unfledged. Whereas in the earlier pictures the conflict seems to be between spirit and soul, the two birds signify the conflict between spirit and body, and in Figure VIII the two birds fighting do in fact represent that conflict, as the caption shows. The opposition between spirit and soul is due to the latter having a very fine substance. It is more akin to the hylical body and is densior et crassior (denser and grosser) than the spirit.
  [4] The elevation of the human figure to a king or a divinity, and on the other hand its representation in subhuman, theriomorphic form, are indications of the transconscious character of the pairs of opposites. They do not belong to the ego-personality but are supraordinate to it. The ego-personality occupies an intermediate position, like the anima inter bona et mala sita (soul placed between good and evil). The pairs of opposites constitute the phenomenology of the paradoxical self, mans totality. That is why their symbolism makes use of cosmic expressions like coelum / terra.18 The intensity of the conflict is expressed in symbols like fire and water,19 height and depth,20 life and death.21

1.01 - The Path of Later On, #Words Of Long Ago, #The Mother, #Integral Yoga
  A young traveller is walking briskly along, happily breathing in the pure morning air; he seems joyful, without a care for the future. The way he is following comes to a cross-roads, where innumerable paths branch off in all directions.
  Everywhere the young man can see criss-crossing footprints. The sun shines ever bright in the sky; the birds are singing in the trees; the day promises to be very beautiful.
  --
  The road is white and dusty, bordered with slender birchtrees; the soft purling of a little stream is heard; but in vain he looks in every direction, he can see no end to this interminable road.
  The young man, feeling a secret unease, cries, "Where am I?
  --
  Owls, crows and bats fly out in all directions, screeching and circling around the head of the poor traveller who, dazed, downcast, overwhelmed, stands rooted to the spot, unable to move; suddenly, horror of horrors, he sees rising up before him terrible phantoms who bear the names of Desolation, Despair, Disgust with life, and amidst the ruins he even glimpses Suicide, pallid and dismal above a bottomless gulf. All these malignant spirits surround him, clutch him, propel him towards the yawning chasm. The poor youth tries to resist this irresistible force, he wants to draw back, to flee, to tear himself away from all these invisible arms entwining and clasping him. But it is too late; he moves on towards the fatal abyss. He feels drawn, hypnotized by it. He calls out; no voice answers to his cries. He grasps at the phantoms, everything gives way beneath him. With haggard eyes he scans the void, he calls out, he implores; the macabre laughter of Evil rings out at last.
  The traveller is at the edge of the gulf. All his efforts have been in vain. After a supreme struggle he falls... from his bed. A young student had a long essay to prepare for the following morning. A little tired by his day's work, he had said to himself as he arrived home, "I shall work later." Soon afterwards he thought that if he went to bed early, he could get up early the next morning and quickly finish his task. "Let's go to bed," he said to himself, "I shall work better tomorrow; I shall sleep on it." He did not know how truly he spoke. His sleep was troubled by the terrible nightmare we have described, and his fall awoke him with a start. Thinking over what he had dreamt, he exclaimed, "But it's quite clear: the path is called the path of 'later on', the road is the road of 'tomorrow' and the great building the castle of 'nothing at all'." Elated at his cleverness, he set to work, vowing to himself that he would never put off until tomorrow what he could do today.

1.01 - THE STUFF OF THE UNIVERSE, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  it to its simplest elements. Traced as far as possible in the direction
  of their origins, the last fibres of the human aggregate are lost to
  --
  upon it like an active centre of direction and transmission in which
  their plurality is organised. We do not get what we call matter
  --
  corpuscular multitude from which we cannot escape in any direction; neither
  round about nor behind but possibly forwards (cf. Part 4, chapter 2) through
  --
  of matter proceeds in the direction ol large molecules, and that
  according to determinate quantitative rules which we must now

1.01 - The Unexpected, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  One thing I could not fail to notice was that from the moment of the fall to the doctor's departure, Sri Aurobindo remained most unusually calm and unperturbed as if nothing had happened to him. No questions about his condition, no anxiety, no complaint of any sort, quiet acceptance of the doctor's direction. It is this submission that made Dr. Rao remark afterwards that Sri Aurobindo was an ideal patient. With the same submission he had accepted Lele's instruction to reject all thoughts. We know however that he was not always submissive in other fields of life.
  The following day, Dr. Manilal had to face from the Mother such an unexpected thundering assault that we felt our hearts would stop with fear and consternation. It was Mahakali's wrath. I have never since seen her in such a fiery mood. Sri Aurobindo was lying quietly; the Mother came into the room and, standing by his bed, asked Dr. Manilal what he thought of the fracture. The doctor either purposely gave an evasive reply with some hesitation or did not consider the case serious. The Mother exploded, "Don't hide it! we know the truth," Then I saw something rare that I shall never forget. The Mother prostrated herself on the floor before Sri Aurobindo and, I believe, began to pray to him. From this supplication I could realise the gravity of the situation. Yet, she had shown no trace of it until then. Calm and solemn, Sri Aurobindo heard the silent prayer.

1.020 - The World and Our World, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  We cannot understand what our connection is with anything at all, and so we are in a helpless condition. Therefore we cannot even control the mind, because controlling the mind is an adjustment of the modifications of the mind in respect of the object of its cognition, and the object of its cognition is not properly understood because of its unintelligible character. Everything then becomes difficult, and our efforts become a source of failure in the end. Success does not seem to be forthcoming, because it is not clear to us what is the right direction that we have to take.
  What is the mind to do, what are we to do, what is anyone to do in this prescription of yoga called 'mind-control'? Are we to subjugate the object, destroy the object, absorb the object into ourselves, or abstract the mind from the object and not cognise it? In an act of mind-control, what is to be done? Are we satisfied if we merely become unaware of the existence of the object, which is what is usually known as abstraction of the senses and the mind from objects, or is there anything to be done in respect of the object itself? This question arises on account of the necessity to understand the extent of influence the object exerts upon the subject, and the extent of influence that the subject exerts upon the object.

1.02.4.2 - Action and the Divine Will, #Isha Upanishad, #unset, #Zen
  its impulsion and direction; it beats about among falsehoods
  to find the Truth, tosses or scrapes fragments together to piece
  --
  with an increasing force of knowledge and direction until it
  becomes the fully conscious Will moving with illumination on

1.024 - Affiliation With Larger Wholes, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  Infinity is hidden in every grain of sand. It can be directly contacted by the mind, by the application of suitable methods or techniques. These techniques are nothing but the affirmation of Reality in every particular form of reality, which in ordinary life is mistaken for an absolutely independent existence. These so-called absolutely independent existences called realities, which attract the mind in different directions, are aspects of a more comprehensive system which includes these realities.
  Therefore, it would be profitable for the mind to pay attention to this higher system, rather than to pay attention to a single, isolated individuality which it has misconstrued as a whole reality by itself. No particular individual, nothing that is isolated, can be regarded as an entire reality. It is only an aspect or a face of reality and, therefore, it is not advantageous to the mind to engage itself entirely in any kind of action in respect of that particular form of reality. It is disadvantageous, because a part cannot give the whole.

1.028 - Bringing About Whole-Souled Dedication, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  What is called for in this practice is wholeheartedness, and perhaps every other qualification is included in this. When we are wholehearted in anything, we shall succeed, whatever be the direction. But our difficulty seems to be that we can never be wholehearted in anything. It is merely a peculiar trait of the mind that it cannot give itself up entirely to any kind of effort, thought, feeling, or volition. There is an inherent inadequacy in the structural character of the mind, which makes it sometimes look like a double-edged sword, cutting both ways sometimes like a naughty child asking for what is impossible, and at other times trying to upset, every moment, what it is trying to achieve by its effort.
  I am reminded of a small child who was very eager to plant a mango tree. He brought a small mango plant and planted it in the ground, and every day he wanted to know how much it had grown. So he would pull it up to see how much it had grown, and then he would replant it. The following day he would again remove it to see how far down the roots had gone, and then replant it. We know that if every day we pull the plant up to see how far down the roots have gone, it will wither away and there will be no mango. This is a very foolish child's attitude which does not know what is to be done. While the intention is to have a mango from the tree, and it is a very good intention indeed, what is the use of the intention when the technique is not known? The child pulls out the plant every day to see how far down the roots have gone.
  --
  Practice, or abhyasa, is always streng thened, and has to be streng thened, by a corresponding practice that goes on simultaneously with abhyasa, and that parallel practice is the automatic withdrawal of the mind from all distracting factors. If we are pulled in two directions with equal force, we will not be able to move even a little bit. We have had occasion to contemplate to some extent on the details of what renunciation is, and what are the various stages of vairagya which Patanjali regards as indispensable to the practice of yoga. He tells us that the practice consists in an insistent attempt on our part to fix ourselves in a single or given attitude. Tatra sthitau yatna abhysa (I.13): Abhyasa or practice is the effort to fix one's own self in a given attitude. What is this given attitude? We have to choose a particular attitude in which to fix ourselves for a protracted period; this is called practice. The attitude in which we have to fix ourselves should be such that we would tend to greater and greater stages of freedom of the soul, and a lessening and decreasing of the intensity of bondage.
  As we had occasion to observe, the practice commences with being seated in a particular posture; and sitting in a particular posture is itself a practice. Often we may be under the wrong notion that 'sitting' is not a very important part of yoga, because yoga is mental concentration. Yes, it is true, but the concentration of the mind will not be possible when we are seated in an awkward posture. We must remember that there is a vital connection obtaining among every part of our psychophysical organism. Right from the skin, which is the outermost part of our body, to the deepest level of our psychological being, there is an internal relationship. Any kind of disturbance that is felt in any part of this organic structure will be sympathetically felt to a particular degree in other parts or levels of this organic structure. The posture or asana, the steady seatedness in a particular mood not only of the mind, but also of the body, the nerves and the pranas is essential for the concentration of the mind on the objective.
  --
  So the subconscious mind goes there, and that outlet which the mind allows for at the bottom lets all the energy leak out in the wrong direction. The so-called concentration of mind in the practice of yoga that is undertaken every day becomes a kind of futile effort on account of not knowing that some underground activity is going on in the mind which is completely upsetting all of our conscious activities called daily meditation. We have certain underground activities which we are not aware of always, and these activities completely disturb and turn upside-down all of the so-called practice of yoga that is done only at the conscious level.
  I have always been saying that our personality is not merely at the conscious level. The larger part of our personality is in levels which are deeper than the conscious one. Until all of the levels come up and merge into a focused attention in the practice of yoga, we cannot expect the desired result. But once this whole-souled dedication is achieved, once it becomes part of our conscious life, it immediately speaks in the language of ultimate success.

1.02 - MAPS OF MEANING - THREE LEVELS OF ANALYSIS, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  role resolutely determining the direction the meeting will take, producing a powerful impact on your co-
  workers. You are in your office, preparing to leave. The meeting is taking place in another building, several
  --
  actions within the game, but accept the rules without question. We move in a linear direction from present
  to future.
  --
  import, is extreme affective relevance and concomitant direction of behavior by the (unknown) object. This
  power is commonly considered by those subject to it as a manifestation of God, personification of the
  --
  overwhelming power, applied simultaneously in one direction and its opposite. Hunger, the will to selfpreservation, drives living creatures to devour each other rapaciously, and the hunters have no mercy for
  the hunted. Sexuality bends the individual will inexorably and often tragically to the demand of the species,
  --
  development takes the direction in which external compulsion is introjected, and which, in the case of
  the human Super-ego, is completely absorbed. This transformation occurs, as we know, by the

1.02 - Meditating on Tara, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
  Three Jewels and generate the altruistic intention of bodhichitta. Contemplating these, we clarify our spiritual direction and our motivation for following it.
  Visualizing Tara and contemplating the symbolisms of her body help us
  --
  from whom we receive spiritual direction, and what our spiritual goal is.
  Without this clarity, sustaining a spiritual practice and plumbing its depths

1.02 - Prana, #Liber ABA, #Aleister Crowley, #Philosophy
  The gigantic will-powers of the world, the world-movers, can bring their Prana into a high state of vibration, and it is so great and powerful that it catches others in a moment, and thousands are drawn towards them, and half the world think as they do. Great prophets of the world had the most wonderful control of the Prana, which gave them tremendous will-power; they had brought their Prana to the highest state of motion, and this is what gave them power to sway the world. All manifestations of power arise from this control. Men may not know the secret, but this is the one explanation. Sometimes in your own body the supply of Prana gravitates more or less to one part; the balance is disturbed, and when the balance of Prana is disturbed, what we call disease is produced. To take away the superfluous Prana, or to supply the Prana that is wanting, will be curing the disease. That again is Pranayama to learn when there is more or less Prana in one part of the body than there should be. The feelings will become so subtle that the mind will feel that there is less Prana in the toe or the finger than there should be, and will possess the power to supply it. These are among the various functions of Pranayama. They have to be learned slowly and gradually, and as you see, the whole scope of Raja-Yoga is really to teach the control and direction in different planes of the Prana. When a man has concentrated his energies, he masters the Prana that is in his body. When a man is meditating, he is also concentrating the Prana.
  In an ocean there are huge waves, like mountains, then smaller waves, and still smaller, down to little bubbles, but back of all these is the infinite ocean. The bubble is connected with the infinite ocean at one end, and the huge wave at the other end. So, one may be a gigantic man, and another a little bubble, but each is connected with that infinite ocean of energy, which is the common birthright of every animal that exists. Wherever there is life, the storehouse of infinite energy is behind it. Starting as some fungus, some very minute, microscopic bubble, and all the time drawing from that infinite store-house of energy, a form is changed slowly and steadily until in course of time it becomes a plant, then an animal, then man, ultimately God. This is attained through millions of aeons, but what is time? An increase of speed, an increase of struggle, is able to bridge the gulf of time. That which naturally takes a long time to accomplish can be shortened by the intensity of the action, says the Yogi. A man may go on slowly drawing in this energy from the infinite mass that exists in the universe, and, perhaps, he will require a hundred thousand years to become a Deva, and then, perhaps, five hundred thousand years to become still higher, and, perhaps, five millions of years to become perfect. Given rapid growth, the time will be lessened. Why is it not possible, with sufficient effort, to reach this very perfection in six months or six years? There is no limit. Reason shows that. If an engine, with a certain amount of coal, runs two miles an hour, it will run the distance in less time with a greater supply of coal. Similarly, why shall not the soul, by intensifying its action, attain perfection in this very life? All beings will at last attain to that goal, we know. But who cares to wait all these millions of aeons? Why not reach it immediately, in this body even, in this human form? Why shall I not get that infinite knowledge, infinite power, now?

1.02 - Prayer of Parashara to Vishnu, #Vishnu Purana, #Vyasa, #Hinduism
  Then, ether, air, light, water, and earth, severally united with the properties of sound and the rest, existed as distinguishable according to their qualities, as soothing, terrific, or stupifying; but possessing various energies, and being unconnected, they could not, without combination, create living beings, not having blended with each other. Having combined, therefore, with one another, they assumed, through their mutual association, the character of one mass of entire unity; and from the direction of spirit, with the acquiescence of the indiscrete Principle[29], Intellect and the rest, to the gross elements inclusive, formed an egg[30], which gradually expanded like a bubble of water. This vast egg, O sage, compounded of the elements, and resting on the waters, was the excellent natural abode of Viṣṇu in the form of Brahmā; and there Viṣṇu, the lord of the universe, whose essence is inscrutable, assumed a perceptible form, and even he himself abided in it in the character of Brahmā[31]. Its womb, vast as the mountain Meru, was composed of the mountains; and the mighty oceans were the waters that filled its cavity. In that egg, O Brahman, were the continents and seas and mountains, the planets and divisions of the universe, the gods, the demons, and mankind. And this egg was externally invested by seven natural envelopes, or by water, air, fire, ether, and Aha
  kāra the origin of the elements, each tenfold the extent of that which it invested; next came the principle of Intelligence; and, finally, the whole was surrounded by the indiscrete Principle: resembling thus the cocoa-nut, filled interiorly with pulp, and exteriorly covered by husk and rind.

1.02 - SADHANA PADA, #Patanjali Yoga Sutras, #Swami Vivekananda, #Hinduism
  is polarised, and it answers all electrical directions. We can
  65
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  it we become dissatisfied and seek in a fresh direction. All
  search is vain, until we begin to perceive that knowledge is

1.02 - Self-Consecration, #The Synthesis Of Yoga, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  10:There is another direction in which the ordinary practice of Yoga arrives at a helpful but narrowing simplification which is denied to the Sadhaka of the integral aim. The practice of Yoga brings us face to face with the extraordinary complexity of our own being, the stimulating but also embarrassing multiplicity of our personality, the rich endless confusion of Nature. To the ordinary man who lives upon his own waking surface, ignorant of the self's depths and vastnesses behind the veil, his psychological existence is fairly simple. A small but clamorous company of desires, some imperative intellectual and aesthetic cravings, some tastes, a few ruling or prominent ideas amid a great current of unconnected or ill-connected and mostly trivial thoughts, a number of more or less imperative vital needs, alternations of physical health and disease, a scattered and inconsequent succession of joys and griefs, frequent minor disturbances and vicissitudes and rarer strong searchings and upheavals of mind or body, and through it all Nature, partly with the aid of his thought and will, partly without or in spite of it, arranging these things in some rough practical fashion, some tolerable disorderly order, -- this is the material of his existence. The average human being even now is in his inward existence as crude and undeveloped as was the bygone primitive man in his outward life. But as soon as we go deep within ourselves, -- and Yoga means a plunge into all the multiple profundities of' the soul, -- we find ourselves subjectively, as man in his growth has found himself objectively, surrounded by a whole complex world which we have to know and to conquer.
  11:The most disconcerting discovery is to find that every part of us -- intellect, will, sense-mind, nervous or desire self, the heart, the body-has each, as it were, its own complex individuality and natural formation independent of the rest; it neither agrees with itself nor with the others nor with the representative ego which is the shadow cast by some central and centralising self on our superficial ignorance. We find that we are composed not of one but many personalities and each has its own demands and differing nature. Our being is a roughly constituted chaos into which we have to introduce the principle of a divine order. Moreover, we find that inwardly too, no less than outwardly, we are not alone in the world; the sharp separateness of our ego was no more than a strong imposition and delusion; we do not exist in ourselves, we do not really live apart in an inner privacy or solitude. Our mind is a receiving, developing and modifying machine into which there is being constantly passed from moment to moment a ceaseless foreign flux, a streaming mass of disparate materials from above, from below, from outside. Much more than half our thoughts and feelings are not our own in the sense that they take form out of ourselves; of hardly anything can it be said that it is truly original to our nature. A large part comes to us from others or from the environment, whether as raw material or as manufactured imports; but still more largely they come from universal Nature here or from other worlds and planes and their beings and powers and influences; for we are overtopped and environed by other planes of consciousness, mind planes, life planes, subtle matter planes, from which our life and action here are fed, or fed on, pressed, dominated, made use offer the manifestation of their forms and forces. The difficulty of our separate salvation is immensely increased by this complexity and manifold openness and subjection to tile in-streaming energies of the universe. Of all this we have to take account, to deal with it, to know what is the secret stuff of our nature and its constituent and resultant motions and to create in it all a divine centre and a true harmony and luminous order.

1.02 - Skillful Means, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
  I and the buddhas of the ten directions
  Know such matters,
  --
  Again, even if the worlds of the ten directions
  Were lled with such disciples
  --
  And even if the worlds of the ten directions
  Were lled with pratyekabuddhas,
  --
  Even if the worlds of the ten directions
  Were packed as thick as stalks of rice,
  --
  Only I and the buddhas of the ten directions know this.
  O riputra! You should know that the words
  --
  O riputra! The true nature of all the buddhas of the ten directions is exactly like this.
  O riputra! All the buddhas of the past expounded the teachings for the sake of sentient beings, using incalculable and innumerable skillful means and various explanations and illustrations. These teachings were all for the sake of the single buddha vehicle. All these sentient beings, hearing the
  --
  O riputra! All the Buddha Bhagavats of the present, in immeasurable hundreds of thousands of myriads of kois of buddha worlds of the ten directions, teach the Dharma to sentient beings using incalculable and innumerable skillful means with various explanations and illustrations to benet many of them and cause them to feel at peace. These Dharmas are all of the single buddha vehicle. All the sentient beings who hear the Dharma from these buddhas will ultimately attain omniscience.
  O riputra! These buddhas lead and inspire only bodhisattvas, because they want to teach sentient beings with the wisdom and insight of the Buddha, to enlighten sentient beings with the wisdom and insight of the Buddha, and to cause sentient beings to enter the path of the wisdom and insight of the
  --
  O riputra! Since there is no second vehicle in the worlds of the ten directions, how could there be a third!
  O riputra! The buddhas appear in the troubled world of the ve delements, which are the delement of the kalpa, the delement through desires confusion, the delement of sentient beings, the delement of views, and the delement of lifespan. Therefore, O riputra, in the period of the decadent kalpa, because sentient beings are lthy, greedy, jealous, and develop roots of error, all the buddhas illuminate the three [vehicles] with the power of skillful means in order to teach the single buddha vehicle.
  --
  In the buddha worlds of the ten directions
  There is only the Dharma of the single vehicle.
  --
  That is why the buddhas of the ten directions
  Are the only ones who have no fear.
  --
  The present buddhas of the ten directions,
  As numerous as the sands of the Ganges River,
  --
  The buddhas of the ten directions appeared
  And with beautiful voices praised me saying:

1.02 - SOCIAL HEREDITY AND PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  given direction, according to the line to which he
  belongs. And all the lines, whatever their nature,
  --
  general direction of greater spontaneity and con-
  sciousness. Something passes, something grows,
  --
  can be seen to modify itself in a given direction (shape of limbs or
  teeth, relative development of the brain, etc.), so that certain spe-
  --
  in its vital, active form I propose to look in a direction which the
  theorists of heredity seem to have ignored. No complete light has
  --
  quence of which the direction may be observed.
  And this is precisely what happens.

1.02 - Taras Tantra, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  empowerment, and under his direction perfo rmed the
  practice of the Liberating One. This led him to his

1.02 - The Age of Individualism and Reason, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Secondly, the West in its triumphant conquest of the world has awakened the slumbering East and has produced in its midst an increasing struggle between an imported Western individual ism and the old conventional principle of society. The latter is here rapidly, there slowly breaking down, but something quite different from Western individualism may very well take its place. Some opine, indeed, that Asia will reproduce Europes Age of Reason with all its materialism and secularist individualism while Europe itself is pushing onward into new forms and ideas; but this is in the last degree improbable. On the contrary, the signs are that the individualistic period in the East will be neither of long duration nor predominantly rationalistic and secularist in its character. If then the East, as the result of its awakening, follows its own bent and evolves a novel social tendency and culture, that is bound to have an enormous effect on the direction of the worlds civilisation; we can measure its probable influence by the profound results of the first reflux of the ideas even of the unawakened East upon Europe. Whatever that effect may be, it will not be in favour of any re-ordering of society on the lines of the still current tendency towards a mechanical economism which has not ceased to dominate mind and life in the Occident. The influence of the East is likely to be rather in the direction of subjectivism and practical spirituality, a greater opening of our physical existence to the realisation of ideals other than the strong but limited aims suggested by the life and the body in their own gross nature.
  But, most important of all, the individualistic age of Europe has in its discovery of the individual fixed among the idea-forces of the future two of a master potency which cannot be entirely eliminated by any temporary reaction. The first of these, now universally accepted, is the democratic conception of the right of all individuals as members of the society to the full life and the full development of which they are individually capable. It is no longer possible that we should accept as an ideal any arrangement by which certain classes of society should arrogate development and full social fruition to themselves while assigning a bare and barren function of service alone to others. It is now fixed that social development and well-being mean the development and well-being of all the individuals in the society and not merely a flourishing of the community in the mass which resolves itself really into the splendour and power of one or two classes. This conception has been accepted in full by all progressive nations and is the basis of the present socialistic tendency of the world. But in addition there is this deeper truth which individualism has discovered, that the individual is not merely a social unit; his existence, his right and claim to live and grow are not founded solely on his social work and function. He is not merely a member of a human pack, hive or ant-hill; he is something in himself, a soul, a being, who has to fulfil his own individual truth and law as well as his natural or his assigned part in the truth and law of the collective existence.2 He demands freedom, space, initiative for his soul, for his nature, for that puissant and tremendous thing which society so much distrusts and has laboured in the past either to suppress altogether or to relegate to the purely spiritual field, an individual thought, will and conscience. If he is to merge these eventually, it cannot be into the dominating thought, will and conscience of others, but into something beyond into which he and all must be both allowed and helped freely to grow. That is an idea, a truth which, intellectually recognised and given its full exterior and superficial significance by Europe, agrees at its root with the profoundest and highest spiritual conceptions of Asia and has a large part to play in the moulding of the future.

1.02 - The Child as growing being and the childs experience of encountering the teacher., #The Essentials of Education, #unset, #Zen
  This is also true of spiritual facts. When we speak of the material nature of plants, animals, minerals, or the human physical body, we need to prove our statements through experiment and sense observation. This kind of proof, like the example mentioned, suggests that an object must be supported. In the free realm of the spirit, however, truths support one another. The only validation required is their mutual support. Thus, in representing spiritual reality, every idea needs to be placed clearly within the whole, just as Earth or any other heavenly body moves freely in cosmic space. Truths must support one another. Anyone who tries to understand the spiritual realm must first examine truths coming from other directions, and how they support the one truth through the free activity of their gravitational force of proof, as it were. In this way, that single truth is kept free in the cosmos, just as a heavenly body is supported freely in the cosmos by the countering forces of gravity. We need to develop the capacity to think the spiritual as a fundamental, inner disposition; otherwise, though we may be able to understand and educate the human soul, well remain unable to grasp, cultivate, and educate the spirit that also lives and moves within us as human beings.
  The Individuals Entry into the World
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  If a child strokes a stick from top to bottom and then makes a stroke on the paper from top to bottom, the meaning is obvious. I show a fish to a child, who then follows the general direction of the form, followed by the front and back fins that cross in the opposite direction. I draw the general form of the fish, and this line across it, and say to the child, Here, on the paper, you have something like a fish. Then I go into the childs inner experi- ence of the fish. It contains an f, and so I draw a line crossed by another line, and thus, out of the childs feeling experience, I have a picture that corresponds to the sound that begins the word fish. All writing can be developed in this waynot a mere copying of the abstract now in use, but a perception of the things themselves as they arise from a childs drawing and painting. When I derive writing from the drawing and painting, Im working with the liv- ing forces of an image.
  It would be enough to present the beginning of this artistic approach; we can feel how it calls on the childs whole being, not just an intellectual understanding, which is overtaxed to a cer- tain extent. If we abandon the intellectual element for imagery at this age, the intellect usually withdraws into the background. If, on the other hand, we overemphasize the intellect and are unable to move into a mode of imagery, the childs breathing process is delicately and subtly disrupted. The child can become congested, as it were, with weakened exhalation. You should think of this as very subtle, not necessarily obvious. If educa- tion is too intellectual between the ages of seven and fourteen, exhalation becomes congested, and the child is subjected to a kind of subconscious nightmare. A kind of intimate nightmare arises, which becomes chronic in the organism and leads in later life to asthmas and other diseases connected with swelling in the breathing system.

1.02 - The Concept of the Collective Unconscious, #The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  we read the following directions:
  Draw breath from the rays, draw in three times as strongly as you
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  you will in like manner see the vision veering in that direction. 6
  106 It is obviously the author's intention to enable the reader to

1.02 - The Development of Sri Aurobindos Thought, #Preparing for the Miraculous, #George Van Vrekhem, #Integral Yoga
  Science itself seemed to advance in the same direction.
  The sensational discoveries around 1900 are now integrated

1.02 - The Divine Teacher, #Essays On The Gita, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Avatar is unseen or appears only for occasional comfort and aid, but at every crisis his hand is felt, yet in such a way that all imagine themselves to be the protagonists and even Arjuna, his nearest friend and chief instrument, does not perceive that he is an instrument and has to confess at last that all the while he did not really know his divine Friend. He has received counsel from his wisdom, help from his power, has loved and been loved, has even adored without understanding his divine nature; but he has been guided like all others through his own egoism and the counsel, help and direction have been given in the language and received by the thoughts of the Ignorance. Until the moment when all has been pushed to the terrible issue of the struggle on the field of Kurukshetra and the Avatar stands at last, still not as fighter, but as the charioteer in the battle-car which carries the destiny of the fight, he has not revealed Himself even to those whom he has chosen.
  Thus the figure of Krishna becomes, as it were, the symbol of the divine dealings with humanity. Through our egoism and ignorance we are moved, thinking that we are the doers of the work, vaunting of ourselves as the real causes of the result, and that which moves us we see only occasionally as some vague or even some human and earthly fountain of knowledge, aspiration, force, some Principle or Light or Power which we acknowledge and adore without knowing what it is until the occasion arises that forces us to stand arrested before the Veil.

1.02 - The Great Process, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  Yet the process, the Great Process, is here, just as it began as long ago as the Pleistocene era that idle little second, that introspection of the second kind but the movement revealed to the monkey and the movement revealed to the spiritualist of ages past (and surpassed) are in no way an indication of the next direction it is to take. There is no continuity that is a delusion! There is no refinement of the same movement, no improving upon the ape or man, no perfecting of the stone tool or the mental tool, no climbing higher peaks, no thinking loftier thoughts, no deeper meditations or discoveries that would be a glorification of the existing state, a sublimation of the old flesh, a sublime halo around the old beast there is SOMETHING ELSE, something radically different, a new threshold to cross, as different from ours as the threshold of plant life was from the animal, another discovery of the already-here, which will change our world as drastically as the human look changed the world of the caterpillar yet it is the same world, but seen with two different looks another Spirit, we might say, as different from the religious or intellectual spirit or the great naked Spirit on the heights of the Absolute, as man's thought is different from the first quivering of a wild rose under a ray of sunlight yet it is the same eternal Spirit but in a greater concretization of itself, for, in fact, the Spirit's true direction is not from the bottom up, but from the top down, and it becomes ever more in matter, because it is the world's very Matter, wrested bit by bit from our false caterpillar look and false human look and false spiritual look or, let us say, recognized little by little by our growing true look. This new threshold of vision depends first on a pause in our regular mental and visual routine and that is the Great Process, the movement of introspection of the second kind but the path is entirely new: this is a new life on earth, another discovery to make; and the less weighed down we are by past wisdom, past ascents, past illuminations, all the disciplines and virtues and old gilded frills of the Spirit, the freer we are and more open to the new, the more the path shall spring up under our feet, as if by magic, as if it sprang from that total desecration.
  This superman, whom we have said is the next goal of evolution, will therefore in no way be a paroxysm of man, a gilded hypertrophy of the mental capacity, nor will he be a spiritual paroxysm, a sort of demigod appearing in a halo of light and outfitted with an oversized consciousness (cosmic, of course) streaked with bolts of lightning, marvelous phenomena and Experiences that would make the poor laggards of evolution pale with envy. It is true that both things are possible, both exist. There are marvelous Experiences; there are superhuman capacities that would make the man in the street turn pale. It is not a myth; it is a fact. But Truth, as always, is simple. The difficulty does not lie in discovering the new path; it lies in clearing away what blocks the view. The path is new, completely new; it has never been seen before by human eyes, never been trodden before by the athletes of the Spirit, yet it is walked every day by millions of ordinary men unaware of the treasure at hand.

1.02 - The Magic Circle, #The Practice of Magical Evocation, #Franz Bardon, #Occultism
  Bearing these facts in mind, it comes natural that the magic circle has to be drawn in complete accordance with the views of life and maturity of the magician. The initiate who is conscious about the Harmony of the Universe and its exact hierarchy will, of course, make use of his knowledge when drawing the magic circle. Such a magician may, if he likes, and if the circumstances permit it, draw into his magic circle diagrams representing the whole hierarchy of the universe and thus come into contact with, and awake his consciousness of, the universe much more rapidly. He is free to draw, if necessary, several circles at a certain distance from each other in order to use them for representing the hierarchy of the universe in the form of divine names, genii, princes, angels and other powers. One must, of course, meditate appropriately and take the concept of the divine aspects in question into consideration when drawing the circle. The true magician must know that divine names are symbolic designations of divine qualities and powers. It stands to reason that while drawing the circle and entering the divine names the magician must also consider the analogies corresponding to the power in question, such as colour, number and direction, if he does not want to allow a breach in his consciousness to come into existance because he has not presented the universe in its complete analogy.
  Each magic circle, no matter whether a simple drawing or a complicated one, will always serve its purpose, depending, of course, on the magician's faculty to bring his individual consciousness into full accordance with the universal, the cosmic consciousness. Even a large barrel-hoop will do the job, providing the magician is capable of finding the relevant state of mind and is completely convinced that the circle in the centre of which he is standing represents the universe, to which is to react, as a representation of God.

1.02 - The Stages of Initiation, #Knowledge of the Higher Worlds, #Rudolf Steiner, #Theosophy
  Long before any distinct perception of progress, there rises in the student, from the hidden depths of the soul, a feeling that he is on the right path. This feeling should be cherished and fostered, for it can develop into a trustworthy guide. Above all, it is imperative to extirpate the idea that any fantastic, mysterious practices are required for the attainment of higher knowledge. It must be clearly realized that a start has to be made with the thoughts and feelings with which we continually live, and that these feelings and thoughts must merely be given a new direction. Everyone must say to himself: "In my own world of thought and feeling the deepest mysteries lie hidden, only hitherto I have been unable to perceive them." In the end it all resolves itself into the fact that man ordinarily carries body, soul and spirit about with him, and yet is conscious in a true sense only of his body, and not of his soul and spirit. The student becomes conscious of soul and spirit, just as the ordinary person is conscious of his body. Hence it is highly important to give the
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   proper direction to thoughts and feelings, for then only can the perception be developed of all that is invisible in ordinary life. One of the ways by which this development may be carried out will now be indicated. Again, like almost everything else so far explained, it is quite a simple matter. Yet its results are of the greatest consequence, if the necessary devotion and sympathy be applied.
  Let the student place before himself the small seed of a plant, and while contemplating this insignificant object, form with intensity the right kind of thoughts, and through these thoughts develop certain feelings. In the first place let him clearly grasp what he really sees with his eyes. Let him describe to himself the shape, color and all other qualities of the seed. Then let his mind dwell upon the following train of thought: "Out of the seed, if planted in the soil, a plant of complex structure will grow." Let him build up this plant in his imagination, and reflect as follows: "What I am now picturing to myself in my imagination will later on be enticed from the seed by the forces of earth and light. If I had before me an artificial object which imitated the seed to
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  Once the student has found the beginnings of spiritual vision by means of such exercises, he may proceed to the contemplation of man himself. Simple phenomena of human life must first be chosen. But before making any attempt in this direction it is imperative for the student to strive for the absolute purity of his moral character. He must banish all through of ever using knowledge gained in this way for his own personal benefit. He must be convinced that he would never, under any circumstances, avail himself in an evil sense of any power he may gain over his fellow-creatures. For this reason, all who seek to discover through personal vision the secrets in
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  The would-be initiate must bring with him a certain measure of courage and fearlessness. He must positively go out of his way to find opportunities for developing these virtues. His training should provide for their systematic cultivation. In this respect, life itself is a good school-possibly the best school. The student must learn to look danger calmly in the face and try to overcome difficulties unswervingly. For instance, when in the presence of some peril, he must swiftly come to the conviction that fear is of no possible use; I must not feel afraid; I must only think of what is to be done. And he must improve to the extent of feeling, upon occasions which formerly inspired him with fear, that to be frightened, to be disheartened, are things that are out of the question as far as his own inmost self is concerned. By self-discipline in this direction, quite definite qualities are develop which are necessary for initiation into the higher mysteries. Just as man requires nervous force in his physical being in order to use his physical sense, so also he
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1.02 - The Vision of the Past, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  and beliefs with a new structure and a new direction. (F.M.,
  pp. 83-5.)
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  move but it advances in a definite direction. And not only
  does it advance, but in observing its progress we can dis-
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  b. In a definite direction. This is the crucial point which has
  to be clearly understood. While accepting the undeniable
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  following any defined course, in any direction and at ran-
  dom. This contention, disastrous to any idea of progress, is

1.02 - THE WITHIN OF THINGS, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  farther in the direction of man, we must extend the bases of our
  future edifices into the within of that same matter.
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  appearing commonplace. Followed in the opposite direction, it
  leads us, as wc have already seen, to the less familiar idea of
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  itself along its main axis in the less probable direction of the higher
  forms of complexity and centricity ?

1.02 - What is Psycho therapy?, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  patient in the direction of his own philosophical, social, and political bent.Even if all citizens are equal before the law, they are very unequal as
  individuals, and therefore each can find happiness only in his own way.
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  doctors time. With proper direction most people become capable after a
  while of making their contri butionhowever modest at firstto the

1.02 - Where I Lived, and What I Lived For, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  Ground; but I was so low in the woods that the opposite shore, half a mile off, like the rest, covered with wood, was my most distant horizon. For the first week, whenever I looked out on the pond it impressed me like a tarn high up on the side of a mountain, its bottom far above the surface of other lakes, and, as the sun arose, I saw it throwing off its nightly clothing of mist, and here and there, by degrees, its soft ripples or its smooth reflecting surface was revealed, while the mists, like ghosts, were stealthily withdrawing in every direction into the woods, as at the breaking up of some nocturnal conventicle. The very dew seemed to hang upon the trees later into the day than usual, as on the sides of mountains.
  This small lake was of most value as a neighbor in the intervals of a gentle rain storm in August, when, both air and water being perfectly still, but the sky overcast, mid-afternoon had all the serenity of evening, and the wood-thrush sang around, and was heard from shore to shore. A lake like this is never smoother than at such a time; and the clear portion of the air above it being shallow and darkened by clouds, the water, full of light and reflections, becomes a lower heaven itself so much the more important. From a hill top near by, where the wood had been recently cut off, there was a pleasing vista southward across the pond, through a wide indentation in the hills which form the shore there, where their opposite sides sloping toward each other suggested a stream flowing out in that direction through a wooded valley, but stream there was none. That way I looked between and over the near green hills to some distant and higher ones in the horizon, tinged with blue. Indeed, by standing on tiptoe I could catch a glimpse of some of the peaks of the still bluer and more distant mountain ranges in the north-west, those true-blue coins from heavens own mint, and also of some portion of the village. But in other directions, even from this point, I could not see over or beyond the woods which surrounded me. It is well to have some water in your neighborhood, to give buoyancy to and float the earth. One value even of the smallest well is, that when you look into it you see that earth is not continent but insular. This is as important as that it keeps butter cool. When I looked across the pond from this peak toward the Sudbury meadows, which in time of flood
  I distinguished elevated perhaps by a mirage in their seething valley, like a coin in a basin, all the earth beyond the pond appeared like a thin crust insulated and floated even by this small sheet of interverting water, and I was reminded that this on which I dwelt was but _dry land_.
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  Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. Men say that a stitch in time saves nine, and so they take a thousand stitches to-day to save nine to-morrow. As for _work_, we havent any of any consequence. We have the Saint Vitus dance, and cannot possibly keep our heads still. If I should only give a few pulls at the parish bell-rope, as for a fire, that is, without setting the bell, there is hardly a man on his farm in the outskirts of Concord, notwithstanding that press of engagements which was his excuse so many times this morning, nor a boy, nor a woman, I might almost say, but would forsake all and follow that sound, not mainly to save property from the flames, but, if we will confess the truth, much more to see it burn, since burn it must, and we, be it known, did not set it on fire,or to see it put out, and have a hand in it, if that is done as handsomely; yes, even if it were the parish church itself. Hardly a man takes a half hours nap after dinner, but when he wakes he holds up his head and asks, Whats the news? as if the rest of mankind had stood his sentinels. Some give directions to be waked every half hour, doubtless for no other purpose; and then, to pay for it, they tell what they have dreamed. After a nights sleep the news is as indispensable as the breakfast. Pray tell me any thing new that has happened to a man any where on this globe, and he reads it over his coffee and rolls, that a man has had his eyes gouged out this morning on the Wachito River; never dreaming the while that he lives in the dark unfathomed mammoth cave of this world, and has but the rudiment of an eye himself.
  For my part, I could easily do without the post-office. I think that there are very few important communications made through it. To speak critically, I never received more than one or two letters in my life I wrote this some years ago that were worth the postage. The penny-post is, commonly, an institution through which you seriously offer a man that penny for his thoughts which is so often safely offered in jest.

1.031 - Intense Aspiration, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  This whole-souled attitude is what is meant by tivra samvegatva. If our asking is charged with an intensity of fervour, we shall get what we want. This is the secret of success, not only in spiritual life but also in material life, because the whole-souled surging of oneself towards the objective sets in vibration the atmosphere in which the objective is situated, and there is a sympathy or an empathy, an en rapport established between the seeker and the sought. The object that we are seeking I am not speaking of a spiritual object, as it could even be a material object the object that we are seeking is not located somewhere in a distant place. This is the secret of achievement of any kind. We have a wrong notion that things are situated far off in some place and, therefore, it requires a tremendous effort of travel, etc., in the direction of the object in order that it may be acquired. This is not the fact. Any object in this world, whatever it may be, is not cast off into distant space in the manner in which we think it is, or it appears to be.
  There is nothing in this world which is spatially cut off by a long distance, ultimately speaking. The distance between the seeker and the sought is an apparent one it is not a real one. If the distance is real, it would be difficult for us to achieve anything. If there is a real gap between me and somebody else, that somebody else will be outside me for ever and ever. The object that we seek is not really cut off by a gap of distance spatial or even temporal. Even the time factor is not a bar to the achievement of the objective, because while space and time seem to be the principle obstructions to our achievement of anything, they are ultimately nothing if we come to the truth about them. These so-called terrific factors called 'space' and 'time', which on one side make the object appear far off in space and on the other side make it appear distant in time, are ultimately illusory vestments over the consciousness of what the truth is. The achievement of anything is a simple affair if the correct technique is known, because nothing can be simpler to understand and experience than truth. The easiest thing is truth, because it is truth after all, and what else can be as easy as truth? It will be difficult to catch untruth. But it should not be difficult to catch truth. We have said it is truth. It is real. It is a fact. It is what it is. How can we say that it is so hard to get it? To utter a truth is very easy; to tell a lie is very difficult, as we know very well, because we have to think deeply before we utter a lie. But what is the difficulty in telling the truth? It is a plain fact.
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  While in the acquiring of objects of a temporal nature in this world, the movement may look horizontal - a movement of one individual towards another individual, or a group of other individuals, in a spatial direction. Here, in this case, it is a kind of rise from the bottom to the top. It is like waking up from dream, where we are not moved from one place to another place. When we wake up from dream, there is no movement; and yet, there is a movement. As there is a transformation, we can call it a movement. But it is not an ordinary kind of movement, like moving from Rishikesh to Delhi; it is not that kind of movement. It is a reshuffling of the constitution of one's own mental conditioning and the whole set-up of consciousness a reorganisation of one's own individuality. It is a complete reordering of one's true being for the purpose of a reawakening into a wider order of reality, about which I have been mentioning again and again. And here, in this awakening into a higher order of reality, the object that was originally thought to be outside in space is now visualised as something nearer to oneself than it appeared to be earlier.
  The whole thing is made still more difficult by another condition which Patanjali puts in a subsequent sutra:mdu madhya adhimtravt tata api viea (I.22). Even in this tremendous aspiration, this impetuous asking, there are degrees of intensity. There can be mild asking, there can be middling asking, and there is the most intense type of asking. Firstly, it was said that our wanting, or asking, or our aspiration should be turbulently vehement unconditionally forceful. Now, here he says there can even be degrees all which make it appear that perhaps we are unfit for the practice of yoga or the attainment of God. It looks terrible better to bid goodbye and go and have lunch. Sometimes it looks as if it is not meant for us. But the difficulty of the whole matter is also the worth and value of it. It is difficult to get gold and diamonds, and yet we know the value of them. Once we get them, they will support us for our entire life.
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  Why do we travel from place to place, as if we have nothing else to do? The reason is that we want to bring about a corresponding change in our own self, and the external movement has been used as a kind of assistance. But if that change has not become an assistance, the whole effort is futile. Another thing why does it not become helpful? How is it that this imagined external change of condition does not become helpful in bringing about an internal reorientation of living? The reason is that we have not been very honest and sincere. There has been a kind of bungling in the whole attitude of our mind towards what we are seeking, and a kind of confusion a self-deception, we may say. This, again, is due to a lack of proper training from a competent master. Again, I come to this point that a Guru is necessary. We cannot tread this path with our own legs. Our legs are very weak, because there are millions of obstacles that can simply shake us from our roots and throw us into the pits, even with all our understanding, which is of no use in the face of these obstacles. The obstacles are violent winds, and our legs are like sand which will be thrown in any direction by these violent movements of winds of desire, and what not.
  In the external change that we bring about, which is the first step in vairagya, as people generally understand it, we leave the homestead and go to Badrinath or Uttarkashi, or somewhere. This initial step that we regard as vairagya or renunciation is to be converted into an internal discipline and change of attitude, for which proper guidance is necessary. Everything is a system of thinking, a change in the attitude of consciousness, and even the first step that we take is only towards that end. Unless there is a corresponding transformation inside, external movements have no meaning. If proper care is taken, an external discipline has some effect upon the internal character. But proper care has to be taken; we have to be very vigilant, and we cannot be vigilant if we give a long rope to our old ways of thinking. We can change anything, but our ways of thinking cannot change, because that is a part of us part of our nature.

1.032 - Our Concept of God, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  vara praidhnt v (I.23), is a sutra of Sage Patanjali. One of the methods of controlling the mind is surrender to God. According to many, it is perhaps the principal method of controlling the mind. This is a most positive approach, of the many that can be thought of. When our mind is absorbed in love for something 'absorbed' is the word, completely occupied with the thought of a particular thing there is no chance for the mind to think of anything else. The modifications of the mind, the vrittis in respect of objects, should cease spontaneously when they are all focused in the direction of love of God. There is no need for any struggle in the form of breathing exercises or any type of hardship in the control of the mind or its vrittis, if it is absorbed in a love which is all-consuming.
  The extent of our love of God, the intensity of our feeling for God, will depend upon our idea of God, our concept of God. There are various concepts of the Creator, of God, the Absolute, etc., according to the various philosophical theories, doctrines, and religious traditions. One of the primitive forms of conceiving God is that He is the Creator of the world. We have a childish idea of a creator. A creator is one who makes things, and God is someone who has made this world. "God made this world" is an old saying which we often repeat. God made the world and, therefore, God is the Creator of the world. God is the Father of the world and, therefore, all His children should love Him as the Supreme Parent. The idea of creatorship that is in our minds is the conditioning factor of our love towards this Creator. We have seen in this world that if someone makes something, he is the efficient or sometimes the instrumental cause of that particular thing that he has made, and the thing that he has made is an effect that is produced by him, standing outside him. God can thus be regarded as extra-cosmic, which is the usual way in which we conceive God.

1.034 - Sheba, #Quran, #unset, #Zen
  19. But they said, “Our Lord, lengthen the distances of our journeys.” They wronged themselves; so We made them history, and We scattered them in every direction. In this are lessons for every steadfast and appreciative person.
  20. Satan was correct in his assessment of them. They followed him, except for a group of believers.

1.035 - The Recitation of Mantra, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  This has to be chanted again and again, says Patanjali tajjapa tadarthabhvanam (I.28). Here, Patanjali does not say that the chanting of the mantra alone is sufficient. He also says that we have to concentrate on the meaning of the mantra to a produce quick result. Tadarthabhvanam the meaning should be felt in the mind. We must be feeling the content of the mantra. "What does it signify? What am I chanting? What does it mean, ultimately?" When the intention behind the mantra is coupled with the chanting, there is a quickening of the process in the realisation of the objective. There are many various other prescriptions mentioned here for the purpose of accelerating the process of realisation through the chanting of the mantra, such a proper seat, a proper direction, a proper time, a proper place and given circumstances, etc. all of which are known to us.
  Also, there is a special tradition of chanting mantra, known as purascharana in India, and it is supposed to be the recitation of the mantra as many lakhs of times (a lakh is one hundred thousand) as there are letters in a mantra, so that the completion of the purascharana is supposed to be the completion of a round of sadhana, the completion of a given cycle. As many lakhs of japa as there are letters in a mantra are to be chanted, and then it produces a novel effect in oneself. There are devotees, even today, and there were many previously, who did numerous purascharanas of this kind for the purpose of the realisation of the deity of the mantra. I personally feel that for the minds of today, japa is perhaps the best sadhana, because it is a technique by which the mind can be automatically drawn towards the point of concentration by habitual recitation repetition of the mantra. It does not require much logic, study, or analysis, or anything of that sort. It requires merely a will to do that is all. There were many saints and sages who had spiritual realisation merely through this japa sadhana, because japa or recitation of the Divine Name or the mantra is virtually the same as meditation. As Patanjali mentions, japa is charged with the notion, idea or concentration of the mind on the meaning of the mantra.

1.036 - The Rise of Obstacles in Yoga Practice, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  But when these impending impediments get reversed in their order of action and procedure, we face the world directly and do not turn our backs to it. Now we are turning our backs to nature. It is moving in one direction, and we are moving in the opposite direction, and therefore there is a repulsion of two forces and an apparent feeling of irreconcilability between our intentions and the intentions of the world or of nature. The reason is that we have turned our backs to nature. While the order of nature requires cognition of things from the point of view of their own subjecthood or selfhood, we turn our backs to this truth and regard everything as an object. This is the reason why there is conflict between us and nature.
  There is no such thing as an object from the point of view of nature as a whole. Everything is a subject from the point of view of each and every individual element. So when we look upon anything as an object, we are fighting with nature and opposing its order; and as nature is ultimately the face of God, we are opposing God Himself. In this struggle, it is we who will be defeated, because Truth will triumph. But when this inner consciousness rises, pratyakcetana adhigamah is present, we collaborate with the order of nature by developing that faculty of cognition within us which is a function of our being, rather than an activity of our mind and senses. Then the universe comes to us like a dear mother and embraces us in all affection, and the abundance, the richness and the wealth of the whole of nature becomes ours, and we return like a prodigal son to the father from whom we have run away, having deserted him. The obstacles cease.
  --
  So, the obstacles are not necessarily the outcome of conscious action, perception and cognition. The obstacles are the reactions set up by our deeper personality. It is not merely the intelligible relationships of waking consciousness that are the causes of our experiences, but the unintelligible inner hidden latencies which become these powers. So we ourselves cannot know what mood will come to us tomorrow, what we will do tomorrow, what we will utter tomorrow, and in what direction we will move tomorrow. "Oh, something occurred to me, and so I went somewhere," is how we will put it. Why should something just occur to us and make us go somewhere? The reason is that the causes of our moods and actions are not always on the conscious level, and as long as they are there, even unconsciously, they shall be the determining factors of our future; and these are the obstacles which have to be faced with a deliberate, conscious practice of yoga.

1.037 - Preventing the Fall in Yoga, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  When there is attainment of pratyakcetana (I.29), or the inner consciousness, there is a cessation of all impediments, says Patanjali. But these impediments, when they come, are variegated in their number. Though they do cease eventually, after a long time, when they come, they come in large numbers. "Misfortunes do not come in one," is an old saying. When we get into trouble, it will come from every direction, and not only from one side, so that it will look as if we have no help at all. This is how higher obstacles attack us. They will come and pounce upon us like a pack of hounds, attacking from all sides.
  The reason for this unfortunate condition is manifold. Why are we attacked like this when we are pursuing a right course of action? This is not really an attack in the sense of an inimical reaction of any person or set of forces. It is a natural consequence of certain cleansing processes going on inside, as has been pointed out. There are no enemies, really speaking. Even when there is a counter-posing action taking place somewhere in a most unpleasant manner, it cannot ultimately be regarded as an inimical reaction, because finally, truly speaking, there are no enemies in nature there are only friendly forces. But sometimes they look like enemies for peculiar reasons, one of the main reasons being the inability on the part of the individual to understand the circumstances under which these reactions have been set up.
  --
  Even masters, great Mahatmas and Mandaleshwars are not exempt from this error of thought, because it is a very subtle form of difficulty which is easy to justify by specious logic, and it may look very wonderful and beautiful to the public eye, though it may be a gross mistake. This pramada is death itself. Nothing can be worse than this idiocy in the practice of yoga. A student of yoga is free from this blunder. This pramada is the worst thing that we can expect on the path. So, one should not be heedless or careless in the evaluation of one's spiritual way of living. Let there be persistent practice with caution, intelligence and understanding that we are moving in the same direction that we have chosen earlier, and we have not taken a different line of approach.
  After that, something else can come, says Patanjali. This working for the world and merging oneself in social liberating activity cannot go on for a long time, because the world will give us a kick. All great saviours of mankind were thrown to the pits because they could not save mankind. A day comes when society will dislike and even hate us, though we are utmost sincere in trying to help it. We have only to read history that is sufficient. All masters in the political field and most sincere workers in the social field were finally doomed by society. They were either killed by the very same people for whom they were working, or they were condemned to a condition worse than death. This is what happened to great leaders of mankind right from Pedicles, Plato and Aristotle, and nobody has been exempted from this, right up to modern times which is the tragedy of human effort. Then we will realise what is in front of us. People generally leave this world with a sob and a cry, not with joy on their faces, because they realised this fact too late. There was very little time for them to live in this world, and all the time had been spent in wrong activity under the impression that it is right activity.

1.038 - Impediments in Concentration and Meditation, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  So this peculiar, inert and neutral condition of the mind, where it is deeply sunk in a kind of sorrow for some reason or the other, is a dangerous state where there is a possibility of a strong wind blowing from any direction. When there are dark clouds soaring in the sky, and the sun is completely dimmed and nothing can be seen, we know that it is a preparation for a violent storm, and we do not know from which side the wind will blow, or towards what direction. So this despondency daurmanasya a mood of melancholy which follows this sorrow, which is associated with sorrow and is a part of sorrow, can produce any consequence of a devastating nature, and it is here that the subtle potentialities within can take very strong shapes and violent forms.
  Duhkha and daurmanasya sorrow and depression in the mind can be due to a memory in the mind of having lost everything pleasurable in life. This memory can come after years and years of practice. The memory need not come immediately. After fifteen, twenty years of meditation we may remember, "After all, I have lost all the goods of life. I am a miserable person." This condition can supervene due to the memory of having lost the centres of satisfaction in life. Or there can be a writhing of spirit from within due to the pressure of Reality itself, though our meditation has been correct and in the right direction, and this requires that the external centres of pleasure be isolated from the spiritual ideal that is before it, because the centres of pleasure, whatever they be, are ultimately irreconcilable with the ideal of meditation.
  The irreconcilability arises on account of the fact that all objects of pleasure are centres which pull consciousness in a direction which is different from the direction which the spirit is trying to take in the practice of meditation. To use a common term, 'objects of sense', the centres of pleasure in life exert a centrifugal force, while in meditation the force is centripetal. It is a movement towards the centre rather than towards the circumference. But in the pursuit of pleasure in the cognition of objects of sense and the activity that is directed towards the achievement of these objects there is a movement of the mind away from the centre externally, like the radii of a circle moving away from the centre towards the circumference. In meditation these rays, which are the radii of the mind, are withdrawn to the centre and conserved with a tremendous effort of understanding. Whatever the circumstance, one has to pass through these stages, and perhaps no one can escape these conditions. One day or the other we will find ourselves in this mood of sorrow and despondency; and most of these difficulties come only in an advanced state and not in the initial stages. A beginner does not know what all this is, because he has not felt any one of these. It is only after a certain stage, perhaps after years of intense practice, that these experiences will come like violent winds blowing over one's head.
  Patanjali also mentions that there can be another difficulty, namely, tremor of the body angamejayatva - which means a sudden reshuffling of the cells of the body and an urgent necessity felt by the pranas within to rearrange themselves on account of pressure exerted by meditation. The pranas move in a particular direction and in a particular manner, usually speaking. Though this is the usual way that they function, it is not the way in which we want them to work, according to the ideal that is before us. This meditation on the ideal may require the pranas to function in a different manner altogether, and if they are thus required, insistently and persistently, every day for a long time, and a rearrangement of the pattern of action is demanded of them, they may feel the pressure thereof to such an extent that they may cause a jerk in the body, a sudden shaking up of the muscular system and a shock felt in the nerves all of which is only due to the movement of prana.
  The prana is connected with the nerves and the muscles very intimately, and inasmuch as the prana is nothing but the external expression of the mind, any rearrangement of the method of thought will tell upon the arrangement of the movement of the pranas, and all of this will also tell upon the muscles, the nerves, etc., so that there can be a complete overhauling of the system. If this is done suddenly and not very slowly or gradually, due to very intense pressure exerted upon the system there can be angamejayatva or tremor of the whole system. We will feel shocks and jerks and tremors, as if we are jumping like a frog. We may not actually physically jump, but there will be a sensation of jumping, as if we have been pushed by somebody from outside, or we have been pulled from the front. All of this is due to the intensification of the activity of the prana in a more harmonious manner than it is accustomed to in its ordinary ways. The movement of the prana is conditioned by desires. As a matter of fact, the pranic activity is usually nothing but the preparation of the system to fulfil its desires. The dynamo, which produces within us the necessary energy for the purpose of fulfilling a desire, is the system known as the vital energy or the prana, and it is always directed towards objects of sense. It pulls the mind in that direction.
  So, there is distraction in the movement of the pranas. Any tendency towards objects of sense is a tendency of distraction, and not a tendency to unification. This is the reason why there is svasaprasvasa or inhalation and exhalation through the nostrils. This compulsion to brea the in the manner we do every day, by means of forced inhalation and forced exhalation, is caused by the working of desires in a particular manner. The more is the desire, the greater is the vehemence of the movement of the prana and the quickness of breathing. The lesser is the desire, the slower is the movement of the prana. The desires temporarily get hushed up in deep sleep, and so we find that in sleep we brea the more slowly than in waking life. When we are worked up into a mood of passion, either of desire or of anger, the breathing process gets accelerated because we are required to take up an action which is urgent from the point of view of the need of the system, and so the engine works faster to drive the vehicle with a greater speed. That is why we brea the faster when we are worked up with such an emotion.
  The point is that ordinarily the movement of the prana is motivated by desire, and in meditation the desire is sublimated at least there is an attempt at sublimation, though it is not fully sublimated and this is immediately felt by the pranas. When the practice of meditation is continued and is repeated every day, naturally the effect upon the prana becomes permanent, and it changes its movement in the direction of unity and harmony rather than diversity and distraction. But in the beginning this effect exerted upon the prana comes to it like a surprise because it has not become used to it, and when it is taken by surprise, it pushes the whole system with a new type of force.
  The push exerted by the prana is the cause of tremor of the body and, therefore, it is not a permanent condition, and it will not continue for a long time. It is not that we will feel the jerk or shock always. It may continue for some months or even years, as the case may be. Patanjali regards it as an obstacle because of the fact that it is a passing phase, as it is only a temporary reaction set up by the pranas which has to cease when the condition of meditation becomes sustained and a part of one's real nature dukha daurmanasya a

1.03 - A Parable, #The Lotus Sutra, #Anonymous, #Various
  Filling the ten directions with his fame
  And greatly beneting sentient beings.
  --
  And running frantically in all directions,
  Driven by hunger.
  --
  The re instantly spread in all directions.
  The frame, beams, rafters, and pillars exploded,
  --
  And a raging re that broke out in all directions.
  In spite of this,
  --
  Even if one seeks in all the ten directions.
  I tell you, O riputra:

1.03 - APPRENTICESHIP AND ENCULTURATION - ADOPTION OF A SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  obedience over a long period of time and in a single direction: given that, something always develops,
  and has developed, for whose sake it is worth while to live on earth; for example, virtue, art, music,
  --
  themselves to think within the directions laid down by a church or court, or under Aristotelian
  presuppositions, the long spiritual will to interpret all events under a Christian schema and to rediscover

1.03 - Meeting the Master - Meeting with others, #Evening Talks With Sri Aurobindo, #unset, #Zen
   Knowledge also progressively develops showing all in our being that is to be thrown out and what is to be retained. In fact, knowledge and guidance both come and you have constantly to consent to the guidance. The progress may be more in one direction than in another. But it is the Higher Power that works. The rest is a matter of experience and the movement of the Shakti.
   23 DECEMBER 1923

1.03 - On Knowledge of the World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  The people of this world are also like the passengers in a ship, who while sailing upon the sea, arrive at an island. The sailors draw the ship to the shore, and then call out and say, "whoever wishes for water or other provisions, let him leave the ship and go and procure them : let him not delay, for the ship will not remain long. It is besides a dangerous place, and whoever remains here will perish." After receiving this warning, the passengers leave the ship, and are all scattered about, one in this direction and another in that. The wise passengers, remembering the admonition of the sailors, attended quickly to their affairs, and immediately returned to the ship. They selected the places in the ship [73] that pleased them best, and sat down calm and tranquil. Some of the passengers, however, gazed at the trees, the flowers and the fruits of the island, listened to and admired the notes of the birds, and became absorbed in looking at the wonderful curiosities found there. They delayed so long, that when they came to the ship, they found every place in the ship occupied, and no room for them to sit down. They finally entered, and found a corner with great difficulty, where they could just press themselves in. Others, not satisfied with gazing around, loaded themselves with stones that had the appearance of being precious, and after a time returned to the ship. They found it completely full, and absolutely no place to sit down. After they had entered, they were compelled from necessity to stow themselves in a dark place at the bottom. As for the stones which they had thought were jewels, they lost their color, putrefied, and sent forth such a disagreeable odor, as to affect the passengers to nausea. It was impossible to expel the odor and they remained to the last with its disagreeableness in the midst of them. Others still took so much pleasure in looking about the island, that they said to themselves, "where shall we be able to find a more delightful retreat than this ? It is not clear that the place where we are going is better than this," And so they chose to remain there; and after the departure of the ship some of them perished with hunger and thirst, and some were devoured by wild beasts. Not one of them was saved. In the future world they will certainly suffer pain and retribution.
  The Alchemy of Happiness, by Mohammed Al-Ghazzali, the Mohammedan Philosopher, trans. Henry A. Homes (Albany, N.Y.: Munsell, 1873). Transactions of the Albany Institute, vol. VIII.

1.03 - PERSONALITY, SANCTITY, DIVINE INCARNATION, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  When a man lacks discrimination, his will wanders in all directions, after innumerable aims. Those who lack discrimination may quote the letter of the scripture; but they are really denying its inner truth. They are full of worldly desires and hungry for the rewards of heaven. They use beautiful figures of speech; they teach elaborate rituals, which are supposed to obtain pleasure and power for those who practice them. But, actually, they understand nothing except the law of Karma that chains men to rebirth.
  Those whose discrimination is stolen away by such talk grow deeply attached to pleasure and power. And so they are unable to develop that one-pointed concentration of the will, which leads a man to absorption in God.

1.03 - Questions and Answers, #Book of Certitude, #unset, #Zen
  14. QUESTION: The believers have been enjoined to face in the direction of the Qiblih when reciting their Obligatory Prayers; in what direction should they turn when offering other prayers and devotions?
  ANSWER: Facing in the direction of the Qiblih is a fixed requirement for the recitation of obligatory prayer, but for other prayers and devotions one may follow what the merciful Lord hath revealed in the Qur'an: "Whichever way ye turn, there is the face of God."
  15. QUESTION: Concerning the remembrance of God in the Mashriqu'l-Adhkar "at the hour of dawn". ANSWER: Although the words "at the hour of dawn" are used in the Book of God, it is acceptable to God at the earliest dawn of day, between dawn and sunrise, or even up to two hours after sunrise.

1.03 - Supernatural Aid, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
  the direction of his search, when he heard someone approaching
  from behind. He turned and perceived a decrepit little woman.
  --
  time, this supernatural principle of guardianship and direction
  unites in itself all the ambiguities of the unconsciousthus sig

1.03 - Sympathetic Magic, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  the womb, and, following the directions shouted to him by his
  colleague on the real scene of operations, he moves this
  --
  it stands aimlessly peering about in all directions.
  The Indians of British Columbia live largely upon the fish which
  --
  image of a swimming fish and put it into the water in the direction
  from which the fish generally appear. This ceremony, accompanied by
  --
  of the houses. Then, waving their fans in the direction of the
  enemy, they run through the village, while they sing, "O golden
  --
  and yields to the direction of a single strong and resolute mind, it
  becomes formidable to its neighbours and enters on a career of
  --
  And when we remember further that in another direction magic has
  paved the way for science, we are forced to admit that if the black

1.03 - The Coming of the Subjective Age, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  The art, music and literature of the world, always a sure index of the vital tendencies of the age, have also undergone a profound revolution in the direction of an ever-deepening sub jectivism. The great objective art and literature of the past no longer commands the mind of the new age. The first tendency was, as in thought so in literature, an increasing psychological vitalism which sought to represent penetratingly the most subtle psychological impulses and tendencies of man as they started to the surface in his emotional, aesthetic and vitalistic cravings and activities. Composed with great skill and subtlety but without any real insight into the law of mans being, these creations seldom got behind the reverse side of our surface emotions, sensations and actions which they minutely analysed in their details but without any wide or profound light of knowledge; they were perhaps more immediately interesting but ordinarily inferior as art to the old literature which at least seized firmly and with a large and powerful mastery on its province. Often they described the malady of Life rather than its health and power, or the riot and revolt of its cravings, vehement and therefore impotent and unsatisfied, rather than its dynamis of self-expression and self-possession. But to this movement which reached its highest creative power in Russia, there succeeded a turn towards a more truly psychological art, music and literature, mental, intuitional, psychic rather than vitalistic, departing in fact from a superficial vitalism as much as its predecessors departed from the objective mind of the past. This new movement aimed like the new philo sophic Intuitionalism at a real rending of the veil, the seizure by the human mind of that which does not overtly express itself, the touch and penetration into the hidden soul of things. Much of it was still infirm, unsubstantial in its grasp on what it pursued, rudimentary in its forms, but it initiated a decisive departure of the human mind from its old moorings and pointed the direction in which it is being piloted on a momentous voyage of discovery, the discovery of a new world within which must eventually bring about the creation of a new world without in life and society. Art and literature seem definitely to have taken a turn towards a subjective search into what may be called the hidden inside of things and away from the rational and objective canon or motive.
  Already in the practical dealing with life there are advanced progressive tendencies which take their inspiration from this profounder subjectivism. Nothing indeed has yet been firmly accomplished, all is as yet tentative initiation and the first feeling out towards a material shape for this new spirit. The dominant activities of the world, the great recent events such as the enormous clash of nations in Europe and the stirrings and changes within the nations which preceded and followed it, were rather the result of a confused half struggle half effort at accommodation between the old intellectual and materialistic and the new still superficial subjective and vitalistic impulses in the West. The latter unenlightened by a true inner growth of the soul were necessarily impelled to seize upon the former and utilise them for their unbridled demand upon life; the world was moving towards a monstrously perfect organisation of the Will-to-live and the Will-to-power and it was this that threw itself out in the clash of War and has now found or is finding new forms of life for itself which show better its governing idea and motive. The Asuric or even Rakshasic character of the recent world-collision was due to this formidable combination of a falsely enlightened vitalistic motive-power with a great force of servile intelligence and reasoning contrivance subjected to it as instrument and the genius of an accomplished materialistic Science as its Djinn, its giant worker of huge, gross and soulless miracles. The War was the bursting of the explosive force so created and, even though it strewed the world with ruins, its after results may well have prepared the collapse, as they have certainly produced a disintegrating chaos or at least poignant disorder, of the monstrous combination which produced it, and by that salutary ruin are emptying the field of human life of the principal obstacles to a truer development towards a higher goal.

1.03 - THE EARTH IN ITS EARLY STAGES, #The Phenomenon of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  chemistry develops progressively in two different directions.
  A. The Crystallising World
  In one direction, much the more common, terrestrial energy has
  tended from the outset to be given off and liberated. Silicates,

1.03 - THE GRAND OPTION, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  aware of the direction in which Life is taking him, to rebel at last;
  to go on strike against a blind course of evolution which may not,
  --
  tates each of the earlier choices: "In what direction and in what
  form are we to look for this new state of being which we expect to
  --
  rection, that is to say, in the same direction as it is moving itself?
  Yes, there is a clear indication, and it is the one of which we have
  --
  of direction. Confronted by the phenomenon of "socialization" in
  which Mankind is irresistibly involved, do we seek to know how to
  --
  in a Supreme Unity opposite directions along a single road.
  But if, as history suggests, there is really a quality of the in-
  --
  are bound to follow, in the majority and freely, the sole direction capa-
  ble of satisfying all their aspirations toward every imaginable form
  --
  which was limitless in all directions (except forward, in the direction
  of its pole of convergence). It became necessary to transpose our

1.03 - THE ORPHAN, THE WIDOW, AND THE MOON, #Mysterium Coniunctionis, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  [22] In this psychologem all the implications of the Sol-Luna allegory are carried to their logical conclusion. The daemonic quality which is connected with the dark side of the moon, or with her position midway between heaven and the sublunary world,155 displays its full effect. Sun and moon reveal their antithetical nature, which in the Christian Sol-Luna relationship is so obscured as to be unrecognizable, and the two opposites cancel each other out, their impact resultingin accordance with the laws of energeticsin the birth of a third and new thing, a son who resolves the antagonisms of the parents and is himself a united double nature. The unknown author of the Consilium156 was not conscious of the close connection of his psychologem with the process of transubstantiation, although the last sentence of the text contains clearly enough the motif of teoqualo, the god-eating of the Aztecs.157 This motif is also found in ancient Egypt. The Pyramid text of Unas (Vth dynasty) says: Unas rising as a soul, like a god who liveth upon his fathers and feedeth upon his mothers.158 It should be noted how alchemy put in the place of the Christian sponsus and sponsa an image of totality that on the one hand was material, and on the other was spiritual and corresponded to the Paraclete. In addition, there was a certain trend in the direction of an Ecclesia spiritualis. The alchemical equivalent of the God-Man and the Son of God was Mercurius, who as an hermaphrodite contained in himself both the feminine element, Sapientia and matter, and the masculine, the Holy Ghost and the devil. There are relations in alchemy with the Holy Ghost Movement which flourished in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries and was chiefly connected with the name of Joachim of Flora (11451202), who expected the imminent coming of the third kingdom, namely that of the Holy Ghost.159
  [23] The alchemists also represented the eclipse as the descent of the sun into the (feminine) Mercurial Fountain,160 or as the disappearance of Gabricus in the body of Beya. Again, the sun in the embrace of the new moon is treacherously slain by the snake-bite (conatu viperino) of the mother-beloved, or pierced by the telum passionis, Cupids arrow.161 These ideas explain the strange picture in Reusners Pandora,162 showing Christ being pierced with a lance by a crowned virgin whose body ends in a serpents tail.163 The oldest reference to the mermaid in alchemy is a quotation from Hermes in Olympiodorus: The virginal earth is found in the tail of the virgin.164 On the analogy of the wounded Christ, Adam is shown in the Codex Ashburnham pierced in the side by an arrow.165

1.03 - The Phenomenon of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  biology: it branches off in a different but allied direction
  from physics and confines itself to the median, studying the
  --
  diffuse manner, as is right) in the direction of the future.
  Fruitfulness.
  --
  logical manner of extending, by recurrence (in the direction of
  greater centred complexity and greater consciousness), the
  --
  thing be fantastic if it is not to be false, in the direction of the
  three infinites? (V.P., pp. 227-9.)

1.03 - The Psychic Prana, #Raja-Yoga, #Swami Vivkenanda, #unset
  Next we shall take one fact from physics. We all hear of electricity and various other forces connected with it. What electricity is no one knows, but so far as it is known, it is a sort of motion. There are various other motions in the universe; what is the difference between them and electricity? Suppose this table moves that the molecules which compose this table are moving in different directions; if they are all made to move in the same direction, it will be through electricity. Electric motion makes the molecules of a body move in the same direction. If all the air molecules in a room are made to move in the same direction, it will make a gigantic battery of electricity of the room. Another point from physiology we must remember, that the centre which regulates the respiratory system, the breathing system, has a sort of controlling action over the system of nerve currents.
  Now we shall see why breathing is practised. In the first place, from rhythmical breathing comes a tendency of all the molecules in the body to move in the same direction. When mind changes into will, the nerve currents change into a motion similar to electricity, because the nerves have been proved to show polarity under the action of electric currents. This shows that when the will is transformed into the nerve currents, it is changed into something like electricity. When all the motions of the body have become perfectly rhythmical, the body has, as it were, become a gigantic battery of will. This tremendous will is exactly what the Yogi wants. This is, therefore, a physiological explanation of the breathing exercise. It tends to bring a rhythmic action in the body, and helps us, through the respiratory centre, to control the other centres. The aim of Prnyma here is to rouse the coiled-up power in the Muladhara, called the Kundalini.
  Everything that we see, or imagine, or dream, we have to perceive in space. This is the ordinary space, called the Mahksha, or elemental space. When a Yogi reads the thoughts of other men, or perceives supersensuous objects he sees them in another sort of space called the Chittksha, the mental space. When perception has become objectless, and the soul shines in its own nature, it is called the Chidksha, or knowledge space. When the Kundalini is aroused, and enters the canal of the Sushumna, all the perceptions are in the mental space. When it has reached that end of the canal which opens out into the brain, the objectless perception is in the knowledge space. Taking the analogy of electricity, we find that man can send a current only along a wire, (The reader should remember that this was spoken before the discovery of wireless telegraphy. Ed.) but nature requires no wires to send her tremendous currents. This proves that the wire is not really necessary, but that only our inability to dispense with it compels us to use it.

1.03 - The Sephiros, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  This criticism is utterly without foundation in fact. An attempt in this direction is most evident in the Sepher
  Yetzirah, and the Sepher haZohar is replete with the most recondite attri butions, many of which I have not repro- duced here at all for the sake of maintaining simplicity.
  --
  Myers holds that they symbolize the dimensions of matter, be it an atom or an universe : the four directions of space
  (according to the Sepher Yetsirah) and the positive and negative poles of each of these.

1.03 - The Tale of the Alchemist Who Sold His Soul, #The Castle of Crossed Destinies, #Italo Calvino, #Fiction
  The answer we all expected was "Your soul!" but we were not sure until the narrator turned over the new card (and he lingered a moment before doing so, not placing it next to the previous one but after the last, thus beginning a new row in the opposite direction). This card was The Devil; in short, he had recognized in the charlatan the old prince of all mingling and ambiguity-just as we now recognized our companion as Doctor Faust.
  So Mephistopheles had then answered, "Your soul!": an idea that can be represented only with the figure of Psyche, the young girl who illuminates the shadows with her light, as she is contemplated in The Star. The Five of Cups which was then shown us could be read as the alchemistic secret the Devil revealed to Faust, or as a toast to seal their bargain, or as the bells which, with their strokes, put the infernal visitor to flight. But we could also interpret the card as a discourse upon the soul and upon the body as the soul's vessel. (One of the five cups was painted horizontally, as if it were empty.)
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  Now there was still The Wheel of Fortune to interpret, one of the most complicated images in the whole tarot game. It could mean simply that fortune had turned in Faust's direction, but this explanation seemed too obvious for the alchemist's narrative style, always elliptical and allusive. On the other hand, it was legitimate to suppose that our doctor, having got possession of the diabolical secret, conceived a monstrous plan: to change into gold all that was changeable. The wheel of the Tenth Arcanum would then literally mean the toiling gears of the Great Gold Mill, the gigantic mechanism which would raise up the Metropolis of Precious Metal; and the human forms of various ages seen pushing the wheel or rotating with it were there to indicate the crowds of men who eagerly lent a hand to the project and dedicated the years of their lives to turning those wheels day and night. This interpretation failed to take into account all the details of the miniature (for example, the animalesque ears and tails that adorned some of the revolving human figures), but it was a basis for interpreting the following cards of cups and coins as the Kingdom of Abundance in which the City of Gold's inhabitants wallowed. (The rows of yellow circles perhaps evoked the gleaming domes of golden skyscrapers that flanked the streets of the Metropolis.)
  But when would the established price be collected by the Cloven Contracting Party? The story's two final cards were already on the table, placed there by the first narrator: the Two of Swords and Temperance. At the gates of the City of Gold armed guards blocked the way to anyone who wished to enter, to prevent access to the Cloven-hooved Collector, no matter in what guise he might turn up. And even if a simple maiden, like the one in the last card, were to approach, the guards made her halt.

1.03 - Time Series, Information, and Communication, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  tiability. The mean square motion in a given direction over a
  given time is proportional to the length of that time, and the
  --
  others have made a beginning in this direction. It involves all
  the complexities of the use either of Bayes' law, on the one hand,

1.03 - To Layman Ishii, #Beating the Cloth Drum Letters of Zen Master Hakuin, #unset, #Zen
  "Hsiang-yen trained at his teacher Kuei-shan's temple for many years without attaining even a glimpse of realization. Making up his mind to leave, he went to inform Kuei-shan with tears in his eyes. Kuei-shan was completely unsympa thetic. He didn't even look at him. Hsiang-yen traveled around, and then took up residence in a solitary hermitage. One day as he was sweeping, his broom threw a fragment of tile against a bamboo trunk. When the sound it made reached his ears, all the barriers suddenly fell away. He bathed and put on a clean robe. Facing in the direction of the Kueishan's temple, he offered some incense, performed three prostrations, and said, 'It is not my late
   teacher's religious virtue I revere. I revere the fact that he never once explained everything to me.'o

1.040 - Re-Educating the Mind, #The Study and Practice of Yoga, #Swami Krishnananda, #Yoga
  As I mentioned, the main point to be remembered here is that while concentrating on any object, no external thought should be allowed, because the thought of an external object is the distraction which prevents concentration. The mind cannot be wholly present in the given object if there is another thing side by side or along with it. This is then vyabhicharini bhakti or divided devotion, as they call it. When we think of two things at the same time because of the presence of another thing outside that given object, the devotion is split. The force of the mind gets diminished on account of a channelisation of the mental energy in two directions. In the beginning, the mind will refuse to concentrate like this because it is fed by diverse food. So what is essential in the beginning is to diminish the directions in which the mind moves to the minimum possible. Though it is not possible to bring the mind to a single point, we can bring it to the minimum possible or conceivable number of items of concentration.
  This is the purpose of satsanga, listening to discourses of a spiritual and philosophical nature, study of sacred scriptures, svadhyaya, etc. Direct meditation is impossible, for reasons well known; therefore, we go to satsangas and listen to discourses touching upon various subjects, though within a limited circle. The subjects are variegated and yet limited to certain features. Similar is the case with study. If we study the Srimad Bhagavata, or the Ramayana, or the Bhagavadgita, the mind is given a large scope to think of many ideas and to bring into it notions of various features of reality. Though there is a variety presented in the study of a scripture of this kind, this variety is ultimately limited to a particular pattern of thinking.
  --
  It is a peculiar repulsive feature that makes itself felt in the mind at the time of concentration of mind, which is what I mean by saying the double activity that is going on in the mind. We have resentment towards certain features which we regard as irrelevant for the purpose, and so there is a tension in the beginning. It is not an easy thing; we struggle hard, we sweat and then feel fatigue, exhaustion. The reason for feeling exhaustion in meditation is that there is a kind of struggle going on inside, and there is not a spontaneous movement of the mind towards the given object. That is not possible, because the very attempt to concentrate the mind on a given concept is a simultaneous attempt to get rid of certain other thoughts which are unsympa thetic with this ideal; and this is the tension. There is always a simultaneous activity going on in the mind one pulling the other in this direction and that direction. This subtle tension is the cause of exhaustion, and we tire of meditation.
  We may not be openly conscious of this activity going on in the mind, but subtly it will be going on. We know very well that the very idea of sitting for meditation implies that we should not think certain things. Otherwise, we can be thinking anything in our minds and call that meditation but it is not so. We have an idea that what we are doing through the mind at present is not meditation. The idea of meditation present in the minds of people is such that it calls for a rejection of certain thoughts. Otherwise, why should we sit somewhere? We can be anywhere and do anything we like. The idea of rejection of certain thoughts becomes a difficulty for many people to implement, because the mind feels pain whenever it is asked to give up something with which it has been friendly up to this time, and which it has been regarding as valuable. The mind will say, "Why should I reject these things?" We will have a simple answer, "Because they are unspiritual, unreligious and anti-divine, unsuited to meditation, etc." But these glib answers will not be accepted by the mind easily, because the mind is shrewd and requires a very satisfactory answer.
  --
  The mind is intelligent; it is not a corpse which can be dragged as we like, in the direction we please. As it is difficult to control anything that is intelligent, merely because it is intelligent, we have to apply intelligence itself to control intelligence. An intelligent person can be subdued only by intelligence, and not by force, because intelligence will not yield to any kind of external pressure. So mere pressure will not succeed here in this context of meditation, because the mind is intelligent, it is capable of understanding, and it knows where to find its wish fulfilment. Therefore, any kind of whipping which is meted out to it in an illogical manner will bring about a resentment in the mind in such a way that it may completely upset the whole practice after sometime.
  An intelligent technique has to be adopted in the very beginning itself. The mind should be made to understand the necessity of avoiding certain ways of thinking for the purpose of a larger objective that it has placed before itself, because the reason behind the necessity to give up certain other methods of thinking is that these methods of thinking which are supposed to be given up are irreconcilable with the nature of truth. And as truth alone succeeds, thoughts which are not consonant with the nature of truth should be given up.

1.04 - ADVICE TO HOUSEHOLDERS, #The Gospel of Sri Ramakrishna, #Sri Ramakrishna, #Hinduism
  "There lived in a village a young man named Padmalochan. People used to call him 'Podo', for short. In this village there was a temple in a very dilapidated condition. It contained no image of God. Awattha and other plants sprang up on the ruins of its walls. Bats lived inside, and the floor was covered with dust and the droppings of the bats. The people of the village had stopped visiting the temple. One day after dusk the villagers heard the sound of a conchshell from the direction of the temple. They thought perhaps someone had installed an image in the shrine and was performing the evening worship. One of them softly opened the door and saw Padmalochan standing in a corner, blowing the conch. No image had been set up. The temple hadn't been swept or washed. And filth and dirt lay everywhere. Then he shouted to Podo: You have set up no image here,
  Within the shrine, O fool!

1.04 - Body, Soul and Spirit, #Theosophy, #Alice Bailey, #Occultism
  recipient. If, therefore, the being of the recipient consisted only of the physical body and the ether-body, sensation could not exist. The activity by which sensation becomes a fact differs essentially from the operations of the life-force. By that activity an inner experience is called forth from these operations. Without this activity there would be a mere life-process, such as one observes in plants. If one tries to picture how a human being receives impacts from all sides, one must think of him at the same time as the source of the above-mentioned activity which streams out toward every point from which he received these impacts. Sensations respond in all directions to the impacts. This fountain of activity is to be called the sentient-soul. (It is the same as that which in theosophical literature is called "Kama.") This sentient-soul is just as real as the physical body. If a man stand before me and I disregard his sentient-soul by thinking of him as merely a physical body, it is exactly as if I were to call up in my mind, instead of a painting-merely the canvas.
  A similar statement has to be made in
  --
  [paragraph continues] In this way he enlightens himself regarding the outside world. The child that has burnt itself thinks it over, and reaches the thought "fire burns." Also man does not follow blindly his impulses, instincts, passions; his thought over them brings about the opportunity by which he can gratify them. What one calls material civilization moves entirely in this direction. It consists in the services which thinking renders to the sentient-soul. Immeasureable quantities of thought-power are directed to this end. It is thought-power that has built ships, railways, telegraphs, telephones; and by far the greatest proportion of all this serves only to satisfy the needs of the sentient-soul. Thought-force permeates the sentient-soul in a similar way to that in which the life-force permeates the physical body. Life-force connects the physical body with forefa thers and descendants, and thus brings it under a system of laws with which the purely mineral body is in no way concerned. In the same way thought-force brings the soul under a system of laws to which it does not belong as mere sentient-soul. Through the sentient-soul man is related to the animals.
  p. 35

1.04 - Feedback and Oscillation, #Cybernetics, or Control and Communication in the Animal and the Machine, #Norbert Wiener, #Cybernetics
  other direction, and this by still a third swing back, until his
  motion becomes nothing but a futile and violent oscillation.
  --
  Let us consider the curve (Eq. 4.17) traced in the direction in
  which y goes from −∞ to ∞. Then if we depart from Eq. 4.17

1.04 - GOD IN THE WORLD, #The Perennial Philosophy, #Aldous Huxley, #Philosophy
  Before going on to discuss the means whereby it is possible to come to the fulness as well as the height of spiritual knowledge, let us briefly consider the experience of those who have been privileged to behold the One in all things, but have made no efforts to perceive it within themselves. A great deal of interesting material on this subject may be found in Bucks Cosmic Consciousness. All that need be said here is that such cosmic consciousness may come unsought and is in the nature of what Catholic theologians call a gratuitous grace. One may have a gratuitous grace (the power of healing, for example, or foreknowledge) while in a state of mortal sin, and the gift is neither necessary to, nor sufficient for, salvation. At the best such sudden accessions of cosmic consciousness as are described by Buck are merely unusual invitations to further personal effort in the direction of the inner height as well as the external fulness of knowledge. In a great many cases the invitation is not accepted; the gift is prized for the ecstatic pleasure it brings; its coming is remembered nostalgically and, if the recipient happens to be a poet, written about with eloquenceas Byron, for example, wrote in a splendid passage of Childe Harold, as Wordsworth wrote in Tintern Abbey and The Prelude. In these matters no human being may presume to pass definitive judgment upon another human being; but it is at least permissible to say that, on the basis of the biographical evidence, there is no reason to suppose that either Wordsworth or Byron ever seriously did anything about the theophanies they described; nor is there any evidence that these theophanies were of themselves sufficient to transform their characters. That enormous egotism, to which De Quincey and Keats and Haydon bear witness, seems to have remained with Wordsworth to the end. And Byron was as fascinatingly and tragi-comically Byronic after he had beheld the One in all things as he was before.
  In this context it is interesting to compare Wordsworth with another great nature lover and man of letters, St. Bernard. Let Nature be your teacher, says the first; and he goes on to affirm that
  --
  That Nirvana and Samsara are one is a fact about the nature of the universe; but it is a fact which cannot be fully realized or directly experienced, except by souls far advanced in spirituality. For ordinary, nice, unregenerate people to accept this truth by hearsay, and to act upon it in practice, is merely to court disaster. All the dismal story of antinomianism is there to warn us of what happens when men and women make practical applications of a merely intellectual and unrealized theory that all is God and God is all. And hardly less depressing than the spectacle of antinomianism is that of the earnestly respectable well-rounded life of good citizens who do their best to live sacramentally, but dont in fact have any direct acquaintance with that for which the sacramental activity really stands. Dr. Oman, in his The Natural and the Supernatural, writes at length on the theme that reconciliation to the evanescent is revelation of the eternal; and in a recent volume, Science, Religion and the Future, Canon Raven applauds Dr. Oman for having stated the principles of a theology, in which there could be no ultimate antithesis between nature and grace, science and religion, in which, indeed, the worlds of the scientist and the theologian are seen to be one and the same. All this is in full accord with Taoism and Zen Buddhism and with such Christian teachings as St. Augustines Ama et fac quod vis and Father Lallemants advice to theocentric contemplatives to go out and act in the world, since their actions are the only ones capable of doing any real good to the world. But what neither Dr. Oman nor Canon Raven makes sufficiently clear is that nature and grace, Samsara and Nirvana, perpetual perishing and eternity, are really and experientially one only to persons who have fulfilled certain conditions. Fac quod vis in the temporal world but only when you have learnt the infinitely difficult art of loving God with all your mind and heart and your neighbor as yourself. If you havent learnt this lesson, you will either be an antinomian eccentric or criminal or else a respectable well-rounded-lifer, who has left himself no time to understand either nature or grace. The Gospels are perfectly clear about the process by which, and by which alone, a man may gain the right to live in the world as though he were at home in it: he must make a total denial of selfhood, submit to a complete and absolute mortification. At one period of his career, Jesus himself seems to have undertaken austerities, not merely of the mind, but of the body. There is the record of his forty days fast and his statement, evidently drawn from personal experience, that some demons cannot be cast out except by those who have fasted much as well as prayed. (The Cur dArs, whose knowledge of miracles and corporal penance was based on personal experience, insists on the close correlation between severe bodily austerities and the power to get petitionary prayer answered in ways that are sometimes supernormal.) The Pharisees reproached Jesus because he came eating and drinking, and associated with publicans and sinners; they ignored, or were unaware of, the fact that this apparently worldly prophet had at one time rivalled the physical austerities of John the Baptist and was practising the spiritual mortifications which he consistently preached. The pattern of Jesus life is essentially similar to that of the ideal sage, whose career is traced in the Oxherding Pictures, so popular among Zen Buddhists. The wild ox, symbolizing the unregenerate self, is caught, made to change its direction, then tamed and gradually transformed from black to white. Regeneration goes so far that for a time the ox is completely lost, so that nothing remains to be pictured but the full-orbed moon, symbolizing Mind, Suchness, the Ground. But this is not the final stage. In the end, the herdsman comes back to the world of men, riding on the back of his ox. Because he now loves, loves to the extent of being identified with the divine object of his love, he can do what he likes; for what he likes is what the Nature of Things likes. He is found in company with wine-bibbers and butchers; he and they are all converted into Buddhas. For him, there is complete reconciliation to the evanescent and, through that reconciliation, revelation of the eternal. But for nice ordinary unregenerate people the only reconciliation to the evanescent is that of indulged passions, of distractions submitted to and enjoyed. To tell such persons that evanescence and eternity are the same, and not immediately to qualify the statement, is positively fatalfor, in practice, they are not the same except to the saint; and there is no record that anybody ever came to sanctity, who did not, at the outset of his or her career, behave as if evanescence and eternity, nature and grace, were profoundly different and in many respects incompatible. As always, the path of spirituality is a knife-edge between abysses. On one side is the danger of mere rejection and escape, on the other the danger of mere acceptance and the enjoyment of things which should only be used as instruments or symbols. The versified caption which accompanies the last of the Oxherding Pictures runs as follows.
  Even beyond the ultimate limits there extends a passageway,
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  Looking backwards across the carnage and the devastation, we can see that Vigny was perfectly right. None of those gay travellers, of whom Victor Hugo was the most vociferously eloquent, had the faintest notion where that first, funny little Puffing Billy was taking them. Or rather they had a very clear notion, but it happened to be entirely false. For they were convinced that Puffing Billy was hauling them at full speed towards universal peace and the brotherhood of man; while the newspapers which they were so proud of being able to read, as the train rumbled along towards its Utopian destination not more than fifty years or so away, were the guarantee that liberty and reason would soon be everywhere triumphant. Puffing Billy has now turned into a four-motored bomber loaded with white phosphorus and high explosives, and the free press is everywhere the servant of its advertisers, of a pressure group, or of the government. And yet, for some inexplicable reason, the travellers (now far from gay) still hold fast to the religion of Inevitable Progresswhich is, in the last analysis, the hope and faith (in the teeth of all human experience) that one can get something for nothing. How much saner and more realistic is the Greek view that every victory has to be paid for, and that, for some victories, the price exacted is so high Uiat it outweighs any advantage that may be obtained! Modern man no longer regards Nature as being in any sense divine and feels perfectly free to behave towards her as an overweening conqueror and tyrant. The spoils of recent technological imperialism have been enormous; but meanwhile nemesis has seen to it that we get our kicks as well as halfpence. For example, has the ability to travel in twelve hours from New York to Los Angeles given more pleasure to the human race than the dropping of bombs and fire has given pain? There is no known method of computing the amount of felicity or goodness in the world at large. What is obvious, however, is that the advantages accruing from recent technological advancesor, in Greek phraseology, from recent acts of hubris directed against Natureare generally accompanied by corresponding disadvantages, that gains in one direction entail losses in other directions, and that we never get something except for something. Whether the net result of these elaborate credit and debit operations is a genuine Progress in virtue, happiness, charity and intelligence is something we can never definitely determine. It is because the reality of Progress can never be determined that the nineteenth and twentieth centuries have had to treat it as an article of religious faith. To the exponents of the Perennial Philosophy, the question whether Progress is inevitable or even real is not a matter of primary importance. For them, the important thing is that individual men and women should come to the unitive knowledge of the divine Ground, and what interests them in regard to the social environment is not its progressiveness or non-progressiveness (whatever those terms may mean), but the degree to which it helps or hinders individuals in their advance towards mans final end.
  next chapter: 1.05 - CHARITY

1.04 - Homage to the Twenty-one Taras, #How to Free Your Mind - Tara the Liberator, #Thubten Chodron, #unset
  Your wheel shines in all directions
  With a whirling mass of light.

1.04 - Magic and Religion, #The Golden Bough, #James George Frazer, #Occultism
  upon to vary it in the desired direction by a judicious appeal to
  his interests, his appetites, or his emotions. Conciliation is never

1.04 - On blessed and ever-memorable obedience, #The Ladder of Divine Ascent, #Saint John of Climacus, #unset
  I have seen some living in obedience who, through their fathers direction, became filled with compunction, meek, temperate, zealous, free from inner conflicts, and fervent. But demons came to them and sowed in them the thought that they now had the qualifications for the solitary life,3 and that in solitude they would attain to freedom from passion4 as the final prize. Thus deceived, they left the harbour and put out to sea, but when a storm came down upon them they were pitifully exposed to danger from this foul and bitter ocean through being unprovided with pilots.
  This sea is bound to be stirred up and roused and enraged, so as to cast out of it again on to the dry land the wood, and hay, and all the corruption that was brought down into it by the rivers of the passions. Let us watch nature and we shall find that after a storm at sea there comes a deep calm.

1.04 - On Knowledge of the Future World., #The Alchemy of Happiness, #Al-Ghazali, #Sufism
  The human spirit belongs to the superior world and is of an angelic substance. It has come into this world a stranger, and has descended from its original state to this temporary home, to receive its destiny from divine direction, and for the purpose of acquiring the knowledge of God. In accordance with this, God declares in his holy word, "We said to them - leave paradise all of you just as you are : a book destined for your guidance will come to you from me: fear shall never befall those who will follow it, and they shall not be afflicted."3 And that which God says in another place, points to the different degrees of worlds: "I create man of clay: and when I shall have formed man of clay and shall have breathed my spirit in him, prostrate yourselves before him in adoration."4First of all in his saying "from clay" he points to a material body. The phrase "I shall have formed" indicates the animal spirit. The phrase "shall have breathed my spirit [78] in him," means that I have given to the body of man a well balanced constitution with power and motion. I have made it capable of receiving the law, and to be a home for the knowledge of God.
  In the same manner as the equilibrium of the inferior spirit is to be preserved by the science of medicine, the equilibrium of the human spirit is to be preserved by virtue, self-denial and holy zeal, that it may not be destitute of the love of God and perish.

1.04 - SOME REFLECTIONS ON PROGRESS, #The Future of Man, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  are clear about the direction in which progress lies and are resolved
  to take the right road.
  --
  only does it move but it advances in a definite direction. And not
  only does it advance, but in observing its progress we can discern
  --
  b In a definite direction. This is the crucial point which has to be
  clearly understood. While accepting the undeniable fact of the
  --
  fined course, in any direction and at random. This contention, dis-
  astrous to any idea of progress, is refuted, in my view, by the
  --
  finally proves the reality and defines the direction of the tra-
  jectory "the dot on the i". . . .
  --
  irresistible flow of our history in the direction of more and more
  unified groupings has no particular meaning; they relegate it to the
  --
  decisive. Not all directions are good for our advance: one alone
  leads upward, that which through increasing organization leads to

1.04 - Sounds, #Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience, #Henry David Thoreau, #Philosophy
  When I meet the engine with its train of cars moving off with planetary motion,or, rather, like a comet, for the beholder knows not if with that velocity and with that direction it will ever revisit this system, since its orbit does not look like a returning curve,with its steam cloud like a banner streaming behind in golden and silver wreaths, like many a downy cloud which I have seen, high in the heavens, unfolding its masses to the light,as if this travelling demigod, this cloud-compeller, would ere long take the sunset sky for the livery of his train; when I hear the iron horse make the hills echo with his snort like thunder, shaking the earth with his feet, and breathing fire and smoke from his nostrils, (what kind of winged horse or fiery dragon they will put into the new Mythology I dont know), it seems as if the earth had got a race now worthy to inhabit it. If all were as it seems, and men made the elements their servants for noble ends! If the cloud that hangs over the engine were the perspiration of heroic deeds, or as beneficent as that which floats over the farmers fields, then the elements and Nature herself would cheerfully accompany men on their errands and be their escort.
  I watch the passage of the morning cars with the same feeling that I do the rising of the sun, which is hardly more regular. Their train of clouds stretching far behind and rising higher and higher, going to heaven while the cars are going to Boston, conceals the sun for a minute and casts my distant field into the shade, a celestial train beside which the petty train of cars which hugs the earth is but the barb of the spear. The stabler of the iron horse was up early this winter morning by the light of the stars amid the mountains, to fodder and harness his steed. Fire, too, was awakened thus early to put the vital heat in him and get him off. If the enterprise were as innocent as it is early! If the snow lies deep, they strap on his snow-shoes, and with the giant plow, plow a furrow from the mountains to the seaboard, in which the cars, like a following drill-barrow, sprinkle all the restless men and floating merchandise in the country for seed.

1.04 - The Aims of Psycho therapy, #The Practice of Psycho therapy, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  patients themselves feel to be decisive point in this direction. During this
  centring process what we call the ego appears to take up a peripheral

1.04 - THE APPEARANCE OF ANOMALY - CHALLENGE TO THE SHARED MAP, #Maps of Meaning, #Jordan Peterson, #Psychology
  an integrated pattern provides one message, and therefore promotes unity and direction. It is also weakness,
  in that integration stable, hierarchically organized structure is inflexible, and therefore brittle. This
  --
  the direction of the older masters. In short, the candidate becomes a medicine man through a ritual of
  initiatory death, followed by a resurrection to a new and superhuman condition.429
  --
  actuality, but loss of potential as well, as anything developed develops in one direction, and not in any of
  the innumerable alternates. Growth therefore also means decline, as each step towards adulthood is one step

1.04 - The Crossing of the First Threshold, #The Hero with a Thousand Faces, #Joseph Campbell, #Mythology
  power. Such custodians bound the world in the four directions
  also up and downstanding for the limits of the hero's present
  --
  with mud, and came down the road from the opposite direction.
  Both before him and behind marched the demons who formed
  --
  in the four directions and the four intermediate directions; five
  hundred carts stood as full as ever.

1.04 - The Discovery of the Nation-Soul, #The Human Cycle, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  This was one side of the predestination of Germany; the other is to be found in her scholars, educationists, scientists, organisers. It was the industry, the conscientious diligence, the fidelity to ideas, the honest and painstaking spirit of work for which the nation has been long famous. A people may be highly gifted in the subjective capacities, and yet if it neglects to cultivate this lower side of our complex nature, it will fail to build that bridge between the idea and imagination and the world of facts, between the vision and the force, which makes realisation possible; its higher powers may become a joy and inspiration to the world, but it will never take possession of its own world until it has learned the humbler lesson. In Germany the bridge was there, though it ran mostly through a dark tunnel with a gulf underneath; for there was no pure transmission from the subjective mind of the thinkers and singers to the objective mind of the scholars and organisers. The misapplication by Treitschke of the teaching of Nietzsche to national and international uses which would have profoundly disgusted the philosopher himself, is an example of this obscure transmission. But still a transmission there was. For more than a half-century Germany turned a deep eye of subjective introspection on herself and things and ideas in search of the truth of her own being and of the world, and for another half-century a patient eye of scientific research on the objective means for organising what she had or thought she had gained. And something was done, something indeed powerful and enormous, but also in certain directions, not in all, misshapen and disconcerting. Unfortunately, those directions were precisely the very central lines on which to go wrong is to miss the goal.
  It may be said, indeed, that the last result of the something done the war, the collapse, the fierce reaction towards the rigid, armoured, aggressive, formidable Nazi State,is not only discouraging enough, but a clear warning to abandon that path and go back to older and safer ways. But the misuse of great powers is no argument against their right use. To go back is impossible; the attempt is always, indeed, an illusion; we have all to do the same thing which Germany has attempted, but to take care not to do it likewise. Therefore we must look beyond the red mist of blood of the War and the dark fuliginous confusion and chaos which now oppress the world to see why and where was the failure. For her failure which became evident by the turn her action took and was converted for the time being into total collapse, was clear even then to the dispassionate thinker who seeks only the truth. That befell her which sometimes befalls the seeker on the path of Yoga, the art of conscious self-finding,a path exposed to far profounder perils than beset ordinarily the average man,when he follows a false light to his spiritual ruin. She had mistaken her vital ego for herself; she had sought for her soul and found only her force. For she had said, like the Asura, I am my body, my life, my mind, my temperament, and become attached with a Titanic force to these; especially she had said, I am my life and body, and than that there can be no greater mistake for man or nation. The soul of man or nation is something more and diviner than that; it is greater than its instruments and cannot be shut up in a physical, a vital, a mental or a temperamental formula. So to confine it, even though the false formation be embodied in the armour-plated social body of a huge collective human dinosaurus, can only stifle the growth of the inner Reality and end in decay or the extinction that overtakes all that is unplastic and unadaptable.

1.04 - The Divine Mother - This Is She, #Twelve Years With Sri Aurobindo, #Nirodbaran, #Integral Yoga
  Now, I shall give some instances of my medical contact with her. We have noticed that she possessed medical knowledge far above an average doctor's. In fact, during my medical practice in the Ashram, it was she who guided me at every step. I was doing the double duty of attending to the patients as well as the Divine. I could not spare much time for the patients, A heavy work was imposed upon me, of course at my own suggestion, that a medical history of all the Ashram people should be recorded and preserved for reference, and it should be incumbent on the new candidates for taking up Yoga to appear for and pass a medical examination. I was to read these reports every day when the Mother attended on Sri Aurobindo. Both of them would ask questions and give suggestions. It became more a test for the doctor than for the patients. Any negligence, mistake or slip in my case-taking was at once detected, but never was I reprimanded for any short-coming. If to some of her questions I remained silent, the Mother would comment, "Oh, he doesn't know. If he knew, he would at once speak out." A humorous instance comes to mind. Once I prescribed a mixture to our bumptious Mridu, Sri Aurobindo's luchi-maker, but forgot to write precise directions on the label. She caught hold of this slip, came in a flurry to the Mother and burst out, "Mother, Nirodbabu is a poem, he is no doctor. He has given me medicine without any directions." The Mother appearing grave, the bottle in her hand, came and reported the joke to Sri Aurobindo. He listened in silence. If it had happened during the correspondence period, I am sure he would have had fun at my cost.
  I shall now give an example of the Mother's considerable courage in taking up the charge of a patient suffering from throat cancer. This man, a devotee, arrived from outside. He had refused all medical aid and turned down all entreaties of his relatives for the accepted treatment. He wanted only to be cured by the Mother or to die here. He was very thin, of a nervous type and his general health was poor. I was asked to supervise the case and give daily reports to the Mother and Sri Aurobindo. We shall see in the chapter 'God Departs' another devotee seeking entire refuge in them and being cured of a mysterious illness that endangered her life. I must admit frankly that I was stunned by the Mother's boldness and could not have an unreserved faith. Either in this context or another, I had asked the Mother and Sri Aurobindo if they had cured cancer by their Force. The Mother replied firmly, "Not only cancer, other diseases too, pronounced incurable by the doctors. Isn't it so?" She asked Sri Aurobindo, as if looking for confirmation; he nodded. The Mother once said that there is hardly a disease that Yoga cannot cure. Sri Aurobindo also wrote, "Of course it [Yoga] can, but on condition of faith or openness or both. Even a mental suggestion can cure cancer with luck of course, as is shown by the case of the woman operated on unsuccessfully for cancer, but the doctors lied and told her it had succeeded. Result, cancer symptoms all ceased and she died many years afterwards of another illness altogether," Here was a patient, then, who came with faith in the Mother. I began to do my duty regularly. At first the patient came for Pranam to the Mother. I witnessed her intense concentration and preoccupation with the case. While listening to the report, she would suddenly go into a trance and Sri Aurobindo would intently watch over her. Once she was on the point of falling down. Sri Aurobindo stretched both his arms, exclaiming "Ah!" The Mother regained her control. Things seemed to be moving at a slow pace. If some symptoms improved, new ones appeared; the condition fluctuated from day to day. Some days passed in a comparative restfulness. Our help was mostly psychological: to give courage and instil faith. If some progress was noticed, I would with a cheerful face report it to the Mother. She would just listen quietly. Meanwhile letters from the relatives urged the patient to return. When the Mother heard about it, she replied, "If I can't cure it, there is none who can." The fight continued, it was a grim encounter, indeed. As a result of the Mother's steady Force, things looked bright and I felt we had turned the corner. The Mother kept her vigil and wasted no words. After the February Darshan, however, the picture changed for no apparent reason. The patient went gradually down-hill and in a month or two, life petered out. The patient was brought before the Mother to have her last blessings. She came down and with her soothing touch and the balm of her divine smile wiped away all his distress and made his passage peaceful. Later when I asked Sri Aurobindo the reason for this unaccountable reversal, he replied, "After the Darshan his faith got shaken and he could not get it back." Cancer of the throat is a scourge; one cannot eat, drink or speak; breathing becomes difficult. Let us remember Sri Ramakrishna's classical example. To keep a steady faith needs a heroic will which how many can have? Besides, the family surroundings also were not very congenial.

1.04 - The Fork in the Road, #On the Way to Supermanhood, #Satprem, #Integral Yoga
  From this point on, the road forks, and taking one path rather than the other entails far-reaching consequences that can extend over an entire lifetime. Not that one path is true and the other false, for we tend to believe that everything is ultimately true, since it exists, but this is a truth that grows, and falsehood is merely dawdling or persisting in a truth that has outlived its time and usefulness. From the moment we have broken loose from the machine, the outer as well as the inner one (the former is really a reflection or expression of the latter, and once we change inside, we will necessarily change outside; if we cease to mentalize life, it will cease being a mental round and become another life), from that moment on, we literally begin to have a certain latitude. No longer bound to the shadowy little person like a tethered goat, we can choose to move in two distinct directions. We can take the ascending path, that is, subtilize ourselves more and more, cast off the earthly burden, soar off in the enchanted little rocket of light we are beginning to sense, and come upon freer realms of consciousness, explore airy ranges, discover higher mental planes that are like the pure source of everything that takes place, distorted and approximate here, the angel face of what is looking more and more like a caricature.7 It is very tempting, so tempting in fact that all the sages and rather hasty seekers, or even simply those we would today call advanced minds or geniuses, have taken it it has lasted for thousands of years. But, unfortunately, once we reach those higher strata, it is very difficult to come back down; and even if we wish to come down, moved by some charitable or humanitarian urge, we notice that the ways above are fairly ineffective here. There seems to be an unbridgeable gulf between that light and this darkness, and what we want (or are able) to bring down from up there reaches here diminished, diluted, disfigured, leaden, finally to be lost in the Machine's great morasses.
  But too bright were our heavens, too far away,

1.04 - The Future of Man, #Let Me Explain, #Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, #Christianity
  And it is then, if we wish to attribute a significant direction
  to our experience and see where it leads, that it seems we are
  obliged to envisage in that direction, finally to round off the
  phenomenon, the ultimate emergence of thought on earth

1.04 - The Gods of the Veda, #Vedic and Philological Studies, #Sri Aurobindo, #Integral Yoga
  Next, it is to Indra that he turns. I have already said that in my view Indra is the master of mental force. Let us see whether there is anything here to contradict the hypothesis. Indra yahi chitrabhano suta ime tu ayavah, Anwibhis tana putasah. Indrayahi dhiyeshito viprajutah sutavatah Upa brahmani vaghatah. Indrayahi tutujana upa brahmani harivah Sute dadhishwa nas chanah. There are several important words here that are doubtful in their sense, anwi, tana, vaghatah, brahmani; but none of them are of importance for our present purpose except brahmani. For reasons I shall give in the proper place I do not accept Brahma in the Veda as meaning speech of any kind, but as either soul or a mantra of the kind afterwards called dhyana, the object of which was meditation and formation in the soul of the divine Power meditated on whether in an image or in his qualities. It is immaterial which sense we take here. Indra, sings the Rishi, arrive, O thou of rich and varied light, here are these life-streams poured forth, purified, with vital powers, with substance. Arrive, O Indra, controlled by the understanding, impelled forward in various directions to my soul faculties, I who am now full of strength and flourishing increase. Arrive, O Indra, with protection to my soul faculties, O dweller in the brilliance, confirm our delight in the nectar poured. It seems to me that the remarkable descriptions dhiyeshito viprajutah are absolutely conclusive, that they prove the presence of a subjective Nature Power, not a god of rain & tempest, & prove especially a mind-god. What is it but mental force which comes controlled by the understanding and is impelled forward by it in various directions? What else is it that at the same time protects by its might the growing & increasing soul faculties from impairing & corrupting attack and confirms, keeps safe & continuous the delight which the Aswins have brought with them? The epithets chitrabhano, harivas become at once intelligible and appropriate; the god of mental force has indeed a rich and varied light, is indeed a dweller in the brilliance. The progress of the thought is clear. Madhuchchhanda, as a result of Yogic practice, is in a state of spiritual & physical exaltation; he has poured out the nectar of vitality; he is full of strength & ecstasy This is the sacrifice he has prepared for the gods. He wishes it to be prolonged, perhaps to be made, if it may now be, permanent. The Aswins are called to give & take the delight, Indra to supply & preserve that mental force which will sustain the delight otherwise in danger of being exhausted & sinking by its own fierceness rapidly consuming its material in the soul faculties. The state and the movement are one of which every Yogin knows.
  But he is not content with the inner sacrifice. He wishes to pour out this strength & joy in action on the world, on his fellows, on the peoples, therefore he calls to the Visve Devah to come, A gata!all the gods in general who help man and busy themselves in supporting his multitudinous & manifold action. They are kindly, omasas, they are charshanidhrito, holders or supporters of all our actions, especially actions that require effort, (it is in this sense that I take charshani, again on good philological grounds), they are to distribute this nectar to all or to divide it among themselves for the action,dasvanso may have either force,for Madhuchchhanda wishes not only to possess, but to give, to distribute, he is dashush. Omasas charshanidhrito visve devasa a gata, daswanso dashushah sutam. He goes on, Visve devaso apturah sutam a ganta turnayah Usra iva swasarani. Visve devaso asridha ehimayaso adruhah, Medham jushanta vahnayah. O you all-gods who are energetic in works, come to the nectar distilled, ye swift ones, (or, come swiftly), like calves to their own stalls,(so at least we must translate this last phrase, till we can get the real meaning, for I do not believe this is the real or, at any rate, the only meaning). O you all-gods unfaltering, with wide capacity of strength, ye who harm not, attach yourselves to the offering as its supporters. And then come the lines about Saraswati. For although Indra can sustain for a moment or for a time he is at present a mental, not an ideal force; it is Saraswati full of the vijnana, of mahas, guiding by it the understanding in all its ways who can give to all these gods the supporting knowledge, light and truth which will confirm and uphold the delight, the mental strength & supply inexhaustibly from the Ocean of Mahas the beneficent & joy-giving action,Saraswati, goddess of inspiration, the flowing goddess who is the intermediary & channel by which divine truth, divine joy, divine being descend through the door of knowledge into this human receptacle. In a word, she is our inspirer, our awakener, our lurer towards Immortality. It is immortality that Madhuchchhandas prepares for himself & the people who do sacrifice to Heaven, devayantah. The Soma-streams he speaks of are evidently no intoxicating vegetable juices; he calls them ayavah, life-forces; & elsewhere amritam, nectar of immortality; somasah, wine-draughts of bliss & internal well being. It is the clear Yogic idea of the amritam, the divine nectar which flows into the system at a certain stage of Yogic practice & gives pure health, pure strength & pure physical joy to the body as a basis for a pure mental & spiritual vigour and activity.
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  Indra and Varuna are called to give victory, because both of them are samrat. The words samrat & swarat have in Veda an ascertained philosophical sense.One is swarat when, having self-mastery & self-knowledge, & being king over his whole system, physical, vital, mental & spiritual, free in his being, [one] is able to guide entirely the harmonious action of that being. Swarajya is spiritual Freedom. One is Samrat when one is master of the laws of being, ritam, rituh, vratani, and can therefore control all forces & creatures. Samrajya is divine Rule resembling the power of God over his world. Varuna especially is Samrat, master of the Law which he follows, governor of the heavens & all they contain, Raja Varuna, Varuna the King as he is often styled by Sunahshepa and other Rishis. He too, like Indra & Agni & the Visvadevas, is an upholder & supporter of mens actions, dharta charshaninam. Finally in the fifth sloka a distinction is drawn between Indra and Varuna of great importance for our purpose. The Rishi wishes, by their protection, to rise to the height of the inner Energies (yuvaku shachinam) and have the full vigour of right thoughts (yuvaku sumatinam) because they give then that fullness of inner plenty (vajadavnam) which is the first condition of enduring calm & perfection & then he says, Indrah sahasradavnam, Varunah shansyanam kratur bhavati ukthyah. Indra is the master-strength, desirable indeed, (ukthya, an object of prayer, of longing and aspiration) of one class of those boons (vara, varyani) for which the Rishis praise him, Varuna is the master-strength, equally desirable, of another class of these Vedic blessings. Those which Indra brings, give force, sahasram, the forceful being that is strong to endure & strong to overcome; those that attend the grace of Varuna are of a loftier & more ample description, they are shansya. The word shansa is frequently used; it is one of the fixed terms of Veda. Shall we translate it praise, the sense most suitable to the ritual explanation, the sense which the finally dominant ritualistic school gave to so many of the fixed terms of Veda? In that case Varuna must be urushansa, because he is widely praised, Agni narashansa because he is strongly praised or praised by men,ought not a wicked or cruel man to be nrishansa because he is praised by men?the Rishis call repeatedly on the gods to protect their praise, & Varuna here must be master of things that are praiseworthy. But these renderings can only be accepted, if we consent to the theory of the Rishis as semi-savage poets, feeble of brain, vague in speech, pointless in their style, using language for barbaric ornament rather than to express ideas. Here for instance there is a very powerful indicated contrast, indicated by the grammatical structure, the order & the rhythm, by the singular kratur bhavati, by the separation of Indra & Varuna who have hitherto been coupled, by the assignment of each governing nominative to its governed genitive and a careful balanced order of words, first giving the master Indra then his province sahasradavnam, exactly balancing them in the second half of the first line the master Varuna & then his province shansyanam, and the contrast thus pointed, in the closing pada of the Gayatri all the words that in their application are common at once to all these four separated & contrasted words in the first line. Here is no careless writer, but a style careful, full of economy, reserve, point, force, and the thought must surely correspond. But what is the contrast forced on us with such a marshalling of the stylists resources? That Indras boons are force-giving, Varunas praiseworthy, excellent, auspicious, what you will? There is not only a pointless contrast, but no contrast at all. No, shansa & shansya must be important, definite, pregnant Vedic terms expressing some prominent idea of the Vedic system. I shall show elsewhere that shansa is in its essential meaning self-expression, the bringing out of our sat or being that which is latent in it and manifesting it in our nature, in speech, in our general impulse & action. It has the connotation of self-expression, aspiration, temperament, expression of our ideas in speech; then divulgation, publication, praiseor in another direction, cursing. Varuna is urushansa because he is the master of wide self-expression, wide aspirations, a wide, calm & spacious temperament, Agni narashansa because he is master of strong self-expression, strong aspirations, a prevailing, forceful & masterful temperament;nrishansa had originally the same sense, but was afterwards diverted to express the fault to which such a temper is prone,tyranny, wrath & cruelty; the Rishis call to the gods to protect their shansa, that which by their yoga & yajna they have been able to bring out in themselves of being, faculty, power, joy,their self-expression. Similarly, shansya here means all that belongs to self-expression, all that is wide, noble, ample in the growth of a soul. It will follow from this rendering that Indra is a god of force, Varuna rather a god of being and as it appears from other epithets, of being when it is calm, noble, wide, self-knowing, self-mastering, moving freely in harmony with the Law of things because it is aware of that Law and accepts it. In that acceptance is his mighty strength; therefore is he even more than the gods of force the king, the giver of internal & external victory, rule, empire, samrajya to his votaries. This is Varuna.
  We see the results & the conditions of the action ofVaruna in the four remaining verses. By their protection we have safety from attack, sanema, safety for our shansa, our rayah, our radhas, by the force of Indra, by the protecting greatness of Varuna against which passion & disturbance cast themselves in vain, only to be destroyed. This safety & this settled ananda or delight, we use for deep meditation, ni dhimahi, we go deep into ourselves and the object we have in view in our meditation is prarechanam, the Greek katharsis, the cleansing of the system mental, bodily, vital, of all that is impure, defective, disturbing, inharmonious. Syad uta prarechanam! In this work of purification we are sure to be obstructed by the powers that oppose all healthful change; but Indra & Varuna are to give us victory, jigyushas kritam. The final result of the successful purification is described in the eighth sloka. The powers of the understanding, its various faculties & movements, dhiyah, delivered from self-will & rebellion, become obedient to Indra & Varuna; obedient to Varuna, they move according to the truth & law, the ritam; obedient to Indra they fulfil with that passivity in activity, which we seek by Yoga, all the works to which mental force can apply itself when it is in harmony with Varuna & the ritam. The result is sharma, peace. Nothing is more remarkable in the Veda than the exactness with which hymn after hymn describes with a marvellous simplicity & lucidity the physical & psychological processes through which Indian Yoga proceeds. The process, the progression, the successive movements of the soul here described are exactly what the Yogin experiences today so many thousands of years after the Veda was revealed. No wonder, it is regarded as eternal truth, not the expression of any particular mind, not paurusheya but impersonal, divine & revealed.

1.04 - The Origin and Development of Poetry., #Poetics, #Aristotle, #Philosophy
  Poetry now diverged in two directions, according to the individual character of the writers. The graver spirits imitated noble actions, and the actions of good men. The more trivial sort imitated the actions of meaner persons, at first composing satires, as the former did hymns to the gods and the praises of famous men. A poem of the satirical kind cannot indeed be put down to any author earlier than Homer; though many such writers probably there were. But from Homer onward, instances can be cited,--his own Margites, for example, and other similar compositions. The appropriate metre was also here introduced; hence the measure is still called the iambic or lampooning measure, being that in which people lampooned one another. Thus the older poets were distinguished as writers of heroic or of lampooning verse.
  As, in the serious style, Homer is pre-eminent among poets, for he alone combined dramatic form with excellence of imitation, so he too first laid down the main lines of Comedy, by dramatising the ludicrous instead of writing personal satire. His Margites bears the same relation to Comedy that the Iliad and Odyssey do to Tragedy. But when Tragedy and Comedy came to light, the two classes of poets still followed their natural bent: the lampooners became writers of Comedy, and the Epic poets were succeeded by Tragedians, since the drama was a larger and higher form of art.

1.04 - The Paths, #A Garden of Pomegranates - An Outline of the Qabalah, #Israel Regardie, #Occultism
  Air A, rushing aimlessly hither and thither, always pressing or tending in a downward direction.
  Its Tarot trump is O - The Fool, implying just this airy aimlessness of existence. The card depicts a person dressed like a jester bearing over his shoulder a stick, on which hangs a bundle. Before him yawns a gaping precipice, while a little dog yaps at his feet from behind. On his tunic is the
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  Janus is an attri bution, since he is represented with two faces, each looking in a different direction. Hoo-paar-
  Kraat is an attri bution again, principally because he sums up the two twin Gods of Ilorus, the Lord of Strength, and Harpocrates, the Lord of Silence, in one deific personality.

1.04 - The Praise, #Tara - The Feminine Divine, #unset, #Zen
  Homage to her who fills the desire, sky, and directions,
  With the syllables
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  Adorns the wheel of aU directions.
  - 87-
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   directionS: in infinite space, an infinite number of
  universes evolves, each comprising a desire sphere, a
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  ADORNS THE WHEEL OF ALL directionS.
   MUDRA SYMBOL OF THE THREE JEWELS: Tara, as she
  --
  radiance that emanates in all directions.
   AMITABHA s ITTiNG IN HER FULL HAIR: in the knot that
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  entourage is immense and goes out in all directions. 16
   ENEMIES: those opposed to the practice of the

1.04 - The Self, #Aion, #Carl Jung, #Psychology
  but of making a moral effort in a different direction. For in-
  stance, a man who is not conscientious enough has to make a

WORDNET



--- Overview of noun direction

The noun direction has 9 senses (first 7 from tagged texts)
                  
1. (35) direction, way ::: (a line leading to a place or point; "he looked the other direction"; "didn't know the way home")
2. (17) direction ::: (the spatial relation between something and the course along which it points or moves; "he checked the direction and velocity of the wind")
3. (14) direction ::: (a general course along which something has a tendency to develop; "I couldn't follow the direction of his thoughts"; "his ideals determined the direction of his career"; "they proposed a new direction for the firm")
4. (5) guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction ::: (something that provides direction or advice as to a decision or course of action)
5. (3) management, direction ::: (the act of managing something; "he was given overall management of the program"; "is the direction of the economy a function of government?")
6. (2) direction, instruction ::: (a message describing how something is to be done; "he gave directions faster than she could follow them")
7. (1) steering, guidance, direction ::: (the act of setting and holding a course; "a new council was installed under the direction of the king")
8. commission, charge, direction ::: (a formal statement of a command or injunction to do something; "the judge's charge to the jury")
9. focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering ::: (the concentration of attention or energy on something; "the focus of activity shifted to molecular biology"; "he had no direction in his life")


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun direction

9 senses of direction                        

Sense 1
direction, way
   => path, route, itinerary
     => line
       => location
         => object, physical object
           => physical entity
             => entity

Sense 2
direction
   => position, spatial relation
     => relation
       => abstraction, abstract entity
         => entity

Sense 3
direction
   => inclination, disposition, tendency
     => attitude, mental attitude
       => cognition, knowledge, noesis
         => psychological feature
           => abstraction, abstract entity
             => entity

Sense 4
guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction
   => message, content, subject matter, substance
     => communication
       => abstraction, abstract entity
         => entity

Sense 5
management, direction
   => social control
     => group action
       => act, deed, human action, human activity
         => event
           => psychological feature
             => abstraction, abstract entity
               => entity
       => event
         => psychological feature
           => abstraction, abstract entity
             => entity

Sense 6
direction, instruction
   => message, content, subject matter, substance
     => communication
       => abstraction, abstract entity
         => entity

Sense 7
steering, guidance, direction
   => control
     => activity
       => act, deed, human action, human activity
         => event
           => psychological feature
             => abstraction, abstract entity
               => entity

Sense 8
commission, charge, direction
   => command, bid, bidding, dictation
     => speech act
       => act, deed, human action, human activity
         => event
           => psychological feature
             => abstraction, abstract entity
               => entity

Sense 9
focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering
   => concentration, engrossment, absorption, immersion
     => attention
       => faculty, mental faculty, module
         => ability, power
           => cognition, knowledge, noesis
             => psychological feature
               => abstraction, abstract entity
                 => entity


--- Hyponyms of noun direction

9 senses of direction                        

Sense 1
direction, way
   => bearing, heading, aim
   => course, trend
   => east-west direction
   => north-south direction
   => qibla
   => tendency, trend

Sense 2
direction
   => frontage
   => orientation
   => opposition
   => windward
   => leeward
   => seaward
   => compass point, point
   => north, magnetic north, compass north
   => north
   => northeast
   => east
   => southeast
   => south
   => southwest
   => west
   => northwest

Sense 3
direction
   => tenor

Sense 4
guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction
   => road map, guideline
   => career counseling
   => cynosure
   => genetic counseling
   => marriage counseling
   => tip, lead, steer, confidential information, wind, hint

Sense 5
management, direction
   => conducting
   => database management
   => finance
   => homemaking
   => misconduct
   => mismanagement, misdirection
   => treatment, handling
   => supervision, supervising, superintendence, oversight
   => administration, disposal
   => authorization, authorisation, empowerment
   => disenfranchisement
   => channelization, channelisation, canalization, canalisation
   => guidance, steering

Sense 6
direction, instruction
   => rule
   => rule, prescript
   => rubric
   => misdirection
   => address, destination, name and address
   => markup
   => prescription
   => recipe, formula
   => rule
   => stage direction
   => style
   => system command

Sense 7
steering, guidance, direction
   => driving
   => aim
   => navigation, pilotage, piloting
   => celestial guidance
   => inertial guidance, inertial navigation
   => command guidance
   => terrestrial guidance

Sense 8
commission, charge, direction
   => misdirection

Sense 9
focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering
   => particularism


--- Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun direction

9 senses of direction                        

Sense 1
direction, way
   => path, route, itinerary

Sense 2
direction
   => position, spatial relation

Sense 3
direction
   => inclination, disposition, tendency

Sense 4
guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction
   => message, content, subject matter, substance

Sense 5
management, direction
   => social control

Sense 6
direction, instruction
   => message, content, subject matter, substance

Sense 7
steering, guidance, direction
   => control

Sense 8
commission, charge, direction
   => command, bid, bidding, dictation

Sense 9
focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering
   => concentration, engrossment, absorption, immersion




--- Coordinate Terms (sisters) of noun direction

9 senses of direction                        

Sense 1
direction, way
  -> path, route, itinerary
   => feeder line
   => main line
   => track, data track
   => air lane, flight path, airway, skyway
   => traffic pattern, approach pattern, pattern
   => flight path
   => beat, round
   => bus route
   => line of flight
   => line of march
   => orbit, celestial orbit
   => orbit, electron orbit
   => paper route, paper round
   => beeline
   => circuit
   => crosscut
   => supply line, supply route
   => line of fire
   => migration route, flyway
   => fairway
   => direction, way
   => trade route
   HAS INSTANCE=> Northwest Passage

Sense 2
direction
  -> position, spatial relation
   => occlusion
   => tilt, list, inclination, lean, leaning
   => gradient, slope
   => placement, arrangement
   => point of view
   => coincidence
   => dead center, dead centre
   => centrality
   => marginality
   => anteriority
   => posteriority
   => outwardness, externality
   => inwardness
   => malposition, misplacement
   => northernness
   => southernness
   => horizontality
   => verticality, verticalness, erectness, uprightness
   => slot
   => room, way, elbow room
   => direction
   => angular position

Sense 3
direction
  -> inclination, disposition, tendency
   => direction
   => drift, trend, movement
   => Call
   => denominationalism
   => devices
   => sympathy, understanding
   => favoritism, favouritism
   => proclivity, propensity, leaning
   => bent, set
   => literalism
   => perseveration
   => predisposition
   => favor, favour
   => disfavor, disfavour, dislike, disapproval
   => partiality, partisanship
   => impartiality, nonpartisanship

Sense 4
guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction
  -> message, content, subject matter, substance
   => body
   => corker
   => reminder
   => request, petition, postulation
   => memorial
   => latent content
   => subject, topic, theme
   => digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis
   => meaning, significance, signification, import
   => nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
   => drivel, garbage
   => acknowledgment, acknowledgement
   => refusal
   => information, info
   => guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction
   => commitment, dedication
   => approval, commendation
   => disapproval
   => respects
   => disrespect, discourtesy
   => interpolation, insertion
   => statement
   => statement
   => wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
   => opinion, view
   => direction, instruction
   => proposal
   => offer, offering
   => submission, entry
   => narrative, narration, story, tale
   => promotion, publicity, promotional material, packaging
   => sensationalism
   => shocker

Sense 5
management, direction
  -> social control
   => auto limitation
   => sanction
   => population control
   => government, governing, governance, government activity, administration
   => enforcement
   => domination
   => socialization, socialisation, acculturation, enculturation
   => duty, responsibility, obligation
   => occupation, military control
   => management, direction
   => privation, deprivation
   => appeasement, calming
   => nationalization, nationalisation, communization, communisation
   => denationalization, denationalisation, privatization, privatisation
   => detribalization, detribalisation
   => discrimination, favoritism, favouritism
   => patronage
   => mobilization, mobilisation, militarization, militarisation
   => demobilization, demobilisation
   => standardization, standardisation, normalization, normalisation
   => punishment, penalty, penalization, penalisation
   => corrections

Sense 6
direction, instruction
  -> message, content, subject matter, substance
   => body
   => corker
   => reminder
   => request, petition, postulation
   => memorial
   => latent content
   => subject, topic, theme
   => digression, aside, excursus, divagation, parenthesis
   => meaning, significance, signification, import
   => nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum
   => drivel, garbage
   => acknowledgment, acknowledgement
   => refusal
   => information, info
   => guidance, counsel, counseling, counselling, direction
   => commitment, dedication
   => approval, commendation
   => disapproval
   => respects
   => disrespect, discourtesy
   => interpolation, insertion
   => statement
   => statement
   => wit, humor, humour, witticism, wittiness
   => opinion, view
   => direction, instruction
   => proposal
   => offer, offering
   => submission, entry
   => narrative, narration, story, tale
   => promotion, publicity, promotional material, packaging
   => sensationalism
   => shocker

Sense 7
steering, guidance, direction
  -> control
   => repression
   => crowd control
   => damage control
   => federalization, federalisation
   => flight control
   => flood control
   => imperialism
   => regulation, regulating
   => internal control
   => regulation, regularization, regularisation
   => possession, ownership
   => possession
   => power trip
   => riot control, riot control operation
   => grasping, taking hold, seizing, prehension
   => steering, steerage
   => steering, guidance, direction
   => self-denial, self-discipline, self-control
   => traffic control
   => price-fixing
   => restraint

Sense 8
commission, charge, direction
  -> command, bid, bidding, dictation
   => countermand
   => order
   => commission, charge, direction
   => commandment
   => injunction
   => behest
   => open sesame

Sense 9
focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering
  -> concentration, engrossment, absorption, immersion
   => focus, focusing, focussing, focal point, direction, centering
   => specialism
   => study




--- Grep of noun direction
change of direction
direction
direction finder
directional antenna
directional microphone
directionality
east-west direction
indirection
misdirection
north-south direction
self-direction
sense of direction
stage direction



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Wikipedia - Arrow (symbol) -- Graphical symbol or pictogram used to point or indicate direction
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Wikipedia - Bearing (navigation) -- In navigation, horizontal angle between the direction of an object and another object
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Wikipedia - Caster angle -- Angular displacement of the steering axis from the vertical axis of a steered wheel in a car, motorcycle, bicycle or other vehicle, measured in the longitudinal direction / the angle between the pivot line and vertical
Wikipedia - Category:Directional statistics
Wikipedia - Chemorepulsion -- Directional movement of a cell away from a substance
Wikipedia - Clock position -- Relative direction using a dial
Wikipedia - Compass rose -- Figure on a compass, map, nautical chart, or monument used to display the orientation of the cardinal directions
Wikipedia - Corduroy road -- Roadbed made of logs perpendicular to the direction travel
Wikipedia - Counter-rotating propellers -- Propellers that rotate on opposite directions
Wikipedia - Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Art Direction -- Award given by the Broadcast Film Critics Association
Wikipedia - Current Directions in Psychological Science
Wikipedia - Curtain array -- Class of large multielement directional wire radio transmitting antennas
Wikipedia - Daydream -- Stream of consciousness that detaches from current external tasks when attention drifts to a more personal and internal direction
Wikipedia - Death by GPS -- Death of people attributable, in part, to following satellite navigation directions or maps
Wikipedia - Design and Art Direction -- Organization
Wikipedia - Digital Interface for Video and Audio -- Bi-directional audio/video over Cat6A
Wikipedia - Dimension -- Maximum number of independent directions within a mathematical space
Wikipedia - Diode -- Electronic component that only allows current to flow in one direction
Wikipedia - Direct current -- Unidirectional flow of electric charge
Wikipedia - Directional antenna
Wikipedia - Directional boring -- Method of installing underground services along a prescribed curved bore path using a surface-launched drilling rig
Wikipedia - Directional derivative
Wikipedia - Directional Infrared Counter Measures -- System to protect aircraft from heat seeking portable missiles
Wikipedia - Directionality (molecular biology) -- End-to-end chemical orientation of a single strand of nucleic acid
Wikipedia - Directional statistics
Wikipedia - Direction du renseignement militaire
Wikipedia - Direction finding
Wikipedia - Direction (geometry)
Wikipedia - Direction Island Slipway and Tank -- Heritage site on Direction Island, Australia
Wikipedia - Direction of prayer -- Characteristic of some world religions
Wikipedia - Direction ov Travel
Wikipedia - Direction, position, or indication sign -- Type of road sign
Wikipedia - Directions 2031 and Beyond -- Strategic plan for the Perth metropolitan
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Wikipedia - Directions to Servants -- 1745 satirical essay by Jonathan Swift
Wikipedia - Directors Guild of Canada Award for Best Direction - Family -- Award
Wikipedia - Divergent double subduction -- Two parallel subduction zones with different directions are developed on the same oceanic plate
Wikipedia - Do-ol Ah-in Going All Directions -- Korean television program
Wikipedia - Draconian (video game) -- Multidirectional shooter video game
Wikipedia - Duplex (telecommunications) -- Communication flowing in both directions
Wikipedia - East-west traffic -- denotes a direction of traffic flow within a data center
Wikipedia - East -- One of the four cardinal directions
Wikipedia - Effective radiated power -- Definition of directional radio frequency power
Wikipedia - Ekman spiral -- A structure of currents or winds near a horizontal boundary in which the flow direction rotates as one moves away from the boundary
Wikipedia - Ekman transport -- Net transport of surface water perpendicular to wind direction
Wikipedia - Equipollence (geometry) -- Property of parallel segments that have the same length and the same direction
Wikipedia - Euclidean vector -- Geometric object that has length and direction
Wikipedia - Euler's theorem (differential geometry) -- Orthogonality of the directions of the principal curvatures of a surface
Wikipedia - Evolution of biological complexity -- The tendency for maximum complexity to increase over time, though without any overall direction
Wikipedia - Extreme points of Earth -- List of geographical locations that extend farther in one direction than any other location
Wikipedia - Fingerpost -- Sign post pointing in the direction of travel
Wikipedia - Fire-control system -- Device which assists use of a weapon by location, tracking, and direction of fire at a target
Wikipedia - Folder redirection
Wikipedia - Following sea -- A wave direction that matches the heading of a vessel
Wikipedia - Geomagnetic reversal -- Reversal of direction of Earth's magnetic field
Wikipedia - Geometric terms of location -- Directions or positions relative to the shape and position of an object
Wikipedia - Geostationary orbit -- Circular orbit above the Earth's equator and following the direction of the Earth's rotation
Wikipedia - German night fighter direction vessel Togo -- German merchant ship converted to an armed cruiser
Wikipedia - Gloss (optics) -- Optical property describing the ability of a surface to reflect light in a specular direction
Wikipedia - Guardians of the directions -- Deities of the eight directions in Hinduism and Buddhism
Wikipedia - Gun Fight -- 1975 arcade multidirectional shooter
Wikipedia - Gyroscope -- Device for measuring or maintaining orientation and direction
Wikipedia - Head directionality parameter
Wikipedia - Head-on collision -- Traffic collision where the front ends of two vehicles such as cars, trains, ships or planes hit each other in opposite directions
Wikipedia - Herd behavior -- How individuals in a group can act collectively without centralized direction
Wikipedia - Hypnosis -- State of increased receptivity to suggestion and direction
Wikipedia - Indirection
Wikipedia - Infinite in All Directions -- Book by Freeman Dyson
Wikipedia - Kitchen rudder -- Type of directional propulsion system for vessels
Wikipedia - Komsomol direction -- Document of mobilization in the Soviet Union
Wikipedia - Left- and right-hand traffic -- directionality of traffic flow by jurisdiction
Wikipedia - Left-to-right mark -- Bidirectional control character
Wikipedia - Length contraction -- The contraction of length in the direction of propagation in Minkowski space
Wikipedia - Linear polarization -- Confinement of the electric field vector or magnetic field vector to a given plane along the direction of propagation
Wikipedia - List of ship directions -- List of terms applying to spatial orientation in a marine environment or location on a vessel
Wikipedia - Log-periodic antenna -- Multi-element, directional antenna useable over a wide band of frequencies
Wikipedia - Loser.com -- URL redirection website
Wikipedia - M18 Claymore mine -- American directional anti-personnel mine
Wikipedia - Magnetocrystalline anisotropy -- Direction dependence of magnetization in a crystal
Wikipedia - Master/slave (technology) -- Mode of communication where one device or process has unidirectional control over one or more other devices
Wikipedia - Metarealism -- A direction in Russian poetry and art
Wikipedia - Mihrab -- Niche in the wall of a mosque that indicates the direction of prayer
Wikipedia - Mizrah -- Ornamental wall plaque used to indicate the direction of prayer in Jewish homes
Wikipedia - Multi-directional shooter
Wikipedia - National Film Award for Best Music Direction -- State-instituted annual film awards in India
Wikipedia - Neoevolutionism -- Long-term directional social change
Wikipedia - Nephoscope -- Meteorological instrument for determining the direction and relative speed of clouds
Wikipedia - New Directions in Sex Therapy -- 2001 book
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Wikipedia - New Direction (think tank) -- European free market think tank
Wikipedia - New Direction -- 2002 single by S Club Juniors
Wikipedia - No Direction Home -- 2005 film directed by Martin Scorsese
Wikipedia - Non-directional beacon -- Radio transmitter which emits radio waves in all directions, used as a navigational aid
Wikipedia - North-south traffic -- denotes a direction of traffic flow into and out of a data center
Wikipedia - North -- One of the four cardinal directions
Wikipedia - Ocean current -- Directional mass flow of oceanic water generated by external or internal forces
Wikipedia - Omnidirectional antenna
Wikipedia - Omnidirectional camera
Wikipedia - Omnidirectional treadmill -- Treadmill which can convey objects in two dimensions
Wikipedia - One Direction -- English-Irish boy band
Wikipedia - One-way traffic -- Traffic that moves in a single direction
Wikipedia - Opto-isolator -- Insulates two circuits from one another while allowing signals to pass through in one direction
Wikipedia - Palindrome -- Word, phrase, number, or other sequence of units that may be read the same way in either direction
Wikipedia - Passengers per hour per direction -- Measure of capacity of a transportation network
Wikipedia - Pharmacopoeia -- Book containing directions for the identification of compound medicines
Wikipedia - Physiological cross-sectional area -- Area perpendicular to fiber direction
Wikipedia - Plane of polarization -- Technical termdirection of polarization of linearly-polarized light or other electromagnetic radiation;
Wikipedia - Points of the compass -- Directional divisions marked on a compass
Wikipedia - Poisson-Boltzmann equation -- Equation describing the distribution of the electric potential in solution in the direction normal to a charged surface
Wikipedia - Polar coordinate system -- Two-dimensional coordinate system where each point is determined by a distance from reference point and an angle from a reference direction
Wikipedia - Port and starboard -- Nautical terms for direction
Wikipedia - Poynting vector -- Measure of directional electromagnetic energy flux
Wikipedia - Precession -- Periodic change in the direction of a rotation axis
Wikipedia - Pulley -- grooved wheel to support movement and change of direction of a taut cable
Wikipedia - Qibla observation by shadows -- Method of determining the direction of Mecca
Wikipedia - Qibla -- Direction that should be faced when a Muslim prays during salah
Wikipedia - Quadrature (astronomy) -- Aspect of a heavenly body in which it makes a right angle with the direction of the Sun
Wikipedia - Quarter-life crisis -- Anxiety over the direction of one's life experienced in the twenties to thirties
Wikipedia - Quick return mechanism -- Mechanism to produce a reciprocating motion with different speeds in opposing directions
Wikipedia - Radio direction finder -- Radio navigation system which operates by finding the bearing of a radio signal
Wikipedia - Radio telescope -- Directional radio antenna used in radio astronomy
Wikipedia - Redirection (computing)
Wikipedia - Reentry (neural circuitry) -- Ongoing bidirectional signalling between two or more brain areas
Wikipedia - Reflection (physics) -- Change in direction of a wavefront at an interface between two different media so that the wavefront returns into the medium from which it originated
Wikipedia - Refraction (sound) -- Change of direction of propagation due to variation of velocity
Wikipedia - Refraction -- Physics; change in direction of a wave
Wikipedia - Relative direction
Wikipedia - Retrograde and prograde motion -- Relative directions of orbit or rotation
Wikipedia - Retrograde ejaculation -- Redirection of ejaculated semen into the urinary bladder
Wikipedia - Right-to-left mark -- Bidirectional control character
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Wikipedia - Saccade -- Quick, simultaneous movement of both eyes between two or more phases of fixation in the same direction
Wikipedia - Saturn Award for Best Direction
Wikipedia - Simple machine -- Mechanical device that changes the direction or magnitude of a force
Wikipedia - Simplified directional facility -- Aircraft approach
Wikipedia - Single-track railway -- Railway where trains traveling in both directions share the same track
Wikipedia - Sinistar -- Multi-directional shooter arcade game released in 1983
Wikipedia - Slack water -- A short period in a body of tidal water when the water is completely unstressed, and there is no movement either way in the tidal stream, and which occurs before the direction of the tidal stream reverses
Wikipedia - Slewing bearing -- Rotational support element for directional alignment
Wikipedia - South -- One of the four cardinal directions
Wikipedia - Space -- General framework of distances and directions according to a physical observer in its proper time
Wikipedia - Spiritual direction
Wikipedia - Streamline diffusion -- Diffusion going on along the advection direction
Wikipedia - Strong's Concordance -- Bible concordance, constructed under the direction of James Strong
Wikipedia - Sun sensor -- spacecraft instrument that senses the direction to the Sun
Wikipedia - Surge (translational motion) -- Transient translational motion in the direction of travel
Wikipedia - Surge (waves) -- Transient mass motion in the direction of propagation
Wikipedia - Telnet -- Network protocol for bidirectional communication using a virtual terminal connection
Wikipedia - The Right Direction -- 1916 film by E. Mason Hopper
Wikipedia - Tidal atlas -- A graphical representation of the geographical distribution of the strength and direction of tidal currents at intervals during the tidal cycle
Wikipedia - Tidal diamond -- Symbols on British admiralty charts that indicate the direction and speed of tidal streams
Wikipedia - Time Pilot '84 -- Multidirectional shooter arcade game sequel to Time Pilot
Wikipedia - Time Pilot -- Multidirectional shooter video game first released in 1982
Wikipedia - Tranquilizer Gun (video game) -- 1980 multi-directional shooter arcade game
Wikipedia - Transverse wave -- Moving wave whose oscillations are perpendicular to the direction of the wave
Wikipedia - Two-way radio -- A radio that can both transmit and receive a signal, used for bidirectional voice communication
Wikipedia - Underwater acoustic positioning system -- A system for the tracking and navigation of underwater vehicles or divers by using acoustic distance and/or direction measurements, and subsequent position triangulation
Wikipedia - Unidirectional Link Detection
Wikipedia - Upstream and downstream (DNA) -- Terms meaning relative to the direction that transcription takes place
Wikipedia - Upstream (networking) -- Data transfer direction from client to server
Wikipedia - URL redirection
Wikipedia - VHF omnidirectional range -- Aviation navigation system
Wikipedia - Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Award for Best Art Direction
Wikipedia - Water hammer -- Pressure surge when a fluid is forced to stop or change direction suddenly
Wikipedia - Weather vane -- Meteorological instrumentation used for showing the direction of the wind
Wikipedia - West -- One of the four cardinal directions
Wikipedia - Wind shear -- Difference in wind speed or direction over a short distance
Wikipedia - Windward and leeward -- Position relative to wind direction: upwind and downwind respectively
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Being Ian (2005 - 2008) - Ian Kelly likes to cope with the injustices of his life using his fascination with movies and a strong desire to "fix things." So while the stories start off from a familiar place, they quickly go in unexpected and hilarious directions thanks to Ian's wild cinematic imagination.
The Brave of Gold Goldran (1995 - 1996) - a Japanese anime television series begun in 1995, created by Takara and Sunrise under the direction of Shinji Takamatsu, and was the sixth in the Ysha/Brave metaseries. Goldran follows the adventures of three young boys who are tasked with finding alien robot fighters, or Braves, that are sleeping...
Rio: Rainbow Gate! (2011 - Current) - an anime series produced by Xebec under the direction of Takao Kato. Based on Tecmo's Rio Series (Rio Rio Shirzu) of pachinko games (from Rakushou! Pachi-Slot Sengen), the series revolves around titular character Rio Rollins, a popular casino dealer working at the Howard Resort who is known as...
Someday's Dreamers (2003 - 2008) - Hepburn: Mahtsukai ni Taisetsu na Koto, lit. "Things That Are Precious To a Mage") an anime series that was produced by J.C.Staff under the direction of Masami Shimoda. It is loosely based on the storyline of the first manga series with new characters added to the story. It ran for a total of 12 ep...
Wonder Pets (2006 - 2016) - an American animated children's television series. It debuted March 3, 2006,[1] on the Nick Jr. block of the Nickelodeon cable television network and Noggin (now Nick Jr.) on December 27, 2006. It won an Emmy Award in 20082010 and 2012 for Outstanding Music Direction and Composition in the United S...
GaoGaiGar: King of Braves (1997 - 1999) - GaoGaiGar (勇者王ガオガイガー, Yūsha Ō GaoGaiGā?) is a Japanese anime television series series begun in 1997, created by Sunrise's internal "Studio 7" under the direction of Yoshitomo Yonetani, and was the eighth and final Yuusha o...
The Muppets Take Manhattan(1984) - Kermit and the Muppet clan go to New York to try to get a revue staged on Broadway. Once there, they find this to be quite a daunting task, so each of the Muppets go off in their own direction and find 9 to 5 jobs. But once a producer takes an interest in staging a show and all the friends return,...
It's Pat(1994) - Pat Riley, an obnoxious busybody of undeterminable sex, meets and falls in love with Chris, a sensitive, caring person also of undeterminable sex. Their relationship suffers because Pat's a lout, and cannot decide on a direction for its life. Meanwhile, Pat's neighbor Kyle falls further and further...
The Avengers(1998) - British Ministry agent John Steed, under direction from "Mother", investigates a diabolical plot by arch-villain Sir August de Wynter to rule the world with his weather control machine. Steed investigates the beautiful Doctor Mrs. Emma Peel, the only suspect, but simultaneously falls for her and joi...
Taxi Driver(1976) - Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is an ex-Marine lost and adrift in 1970's Manhatta when he finds a job driving a taxi through the hellish streets of the city. One night he encounters a young prostitute (Jodie Foster) and a phoney politician and his life shifts into a new direction. He wants to save t...
Pretty Woman(1990) - Self-involved corporate raider Edward Lewis (Richard Gere) has recently split up with his girlfriend. Seeking directions to the Beverly Hills Hotel, he makes the acquaintance of free-spirited hooker Vivian Ward (Julia Roberts) and decides to put her on a 3,000-dollar retainer as his "date." He Cinde...
The Howling VI: The Freaks(1991) - Part of a pointless string of sequels ostensibly based on the werewolf novels by Gary Brandner, this entry deserves credit for taking the creatively dead series in an interesting new direction. Set in the barren rural town of Canton Bluff, the story centers on the enigmatic figure of Ian (Brendan Hu...
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Pizza(2005) - An awkward,overweight,teenage girl(Kylie Sparks) strikes up a friendship with a directionless Pizza delivery guy(Ethan Embry),who is pushing thirty.
Ed And His Dead Mother(1993) - A mourning son makes a deal to reanimate his one year dead mother, however things turn into an unexpected direction.
Precious(2009) - In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction.
Twin Warriors a.k.a. Tai Chi Master(1993) - World-reowned martial arts superstar Jet Li powers this nonstop action thriller about two boys who grow up together...then see their lives take off in opposite directions Junbao joins a group of political rebels while his old friend tienbao becomes the follower of a ruthless military regime.
Bambi (1942) ::: 7.3/10 -- G | 1h 10min | Animation, Drama, Family | 21 August 1942 (USA) -- The story of a young deer growing up in the forest. Directors: James Algar, Samuel Armstrong (as Sam Armstrong) | 7 more credits Writers: Felix Salten (from the story by), Perce Pearce (story direction) | 6 more credits
Ghost World (2001) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 51min | Comedy, Drama | 21 September 2001 (USA) -- With only the plan of moving in together after high school, two unusually devious friends seek direction in life. As a mere gag, they respond to a man's newspaper ad for a date, only to find it will greatly complicate their lives. Director: Terry Zwigoff Writers:
Good Will Hunting (1997) ::: 8.3/10 -- R | 2h 6min | Drama, Romance | 9 January 1998 (USA) -- Will Hunting, a janitor at M.I.T., has a gift for mathematics, but needs help from a psychologist to find direction in his life. Director: Gus Van Sant Writers: Matt Damon, Ben Affleck
Journey to Italy (1954) ::: 7.4/10 -- Viaggio in Italia (original title) -- Journey to Italy Poster -- An unhappily married couple attempts to find direction and insight while vacationing in Naples. Director: Roberto Rossellini Writers:
Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) ::: 6.6/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy | 18 October 2019 (USA) -- Maleficent and her goddaughter Aurora begin to question the complex family ties that bind them as they are pulled in different directions by impending nuptials, unexpected allies and dark new forces at play. Director: Joachim Rnning Writers:
Precious (2009) ::: 7.3/10 -- R | 1h 50min | Drama | 20 November 2009 (USA) -- In New York City's Harlem circa 1987, an overweight, abused, illiterate teen who is pregnant with her second child is invited to enroll in an alternative school in hopes that her life can head in a new direction. Director: Lee Daniels Writers:
The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants (2005) ::: 6.5/10 -- PG | 1h 59min | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 1 June 2005 (USA) -- Four best girlfriends hatch a plan to stay connected with one another as their lives start off in different directions: they pass around a pair of secondhand jeans that fits each of their bodies perfectly. Director: Ken Kwapis Writers:
Upside Down (2012) ::: 6.4/10 -- PG-13 | 1h 49min | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 1 May 2013 (France) -- Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love. Director: Juan Solanas Writers:
Women in Love (1969) ::: 7.2/10 -- R | 2h 11min | Drama, Romance | 25 March 1970 (USA) -- Two best friends fall in love with a pair of women, but the relationships soon go in very different directions. Director: Ken Russell Writers: D.H. Lawrence (novel), Larry Kramer (written for the screen by) Stars:
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Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen -- -- Madhouse -- 22 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen -- With all of the Clow Cards recaptured and changed into her own Sakura Cards, Sakura Kinomoto now enters her first year at Tomoeda Middle School. After her initial day of classes, Sakura reunites with her love Shaoran Li, who informs her that he is permanently moving back to Tomoeda. Much to her surprise, it even turns out that Shaoran will attend the same school and it seems as if Sakura's life is heading in all the right directions. -- -- However, when Sakura goes to sleep, she encounters in her dream a mysterious cloaked figure and finds herself surrounded by transparent cards. Waking up in fear, Sakura is shocked to see her dream has come true, with the Sakura Cards having turned clear. Continued dreamlike encounters with the unknown enemy and her gaining a new magical key sets the stage for Cardcaptor Sakura's latest adventure! -- -- 95,298 7.65
Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen -- -- Madhouse -- 22 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Fantasy Magic Romance Shoujo -- Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen Cardcaptor Sakura: Clear Card-hen -- With all of the Clow Cards recaptured and changed into her own Sakura Cards, Sakura Kinomoto now enters her first year at Tomoeda Middle School. After her initial day of classes, Sakura reunites with her love Shaoran Li, who informs her that he is permanently moving back to Tomoeda. Much to her surprise, it even turns out that Shaoran will attend the same school and it seems as if Sakura's life is heading in all the right directions. -- -- However, when Sakura goes to sleep, she encounters in her dream a mysterious cloaked figure and finds herself surrounded by transparent cards. Waking up in fear, Sakura is shocked to see her dream has come true, with the Sakura Cards having turned clear. Continued dreamlike encounters with the unknown enemy and her gaining a new magical key sets the stage for Cardcaptor Sakura's latest adventure! -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 95,298 7.65
Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini -- -- Bones -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Sci-Fi Mystery Super Power -- Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini Darker than Black: Ryuusei no Gemini -- One night, as meteors streak across the star-studded sky, Shion Pavlichenko becomes a Contractor. Despite her brother's transformation, Shion's twin sister Suou continues to live a fairly ordinary life, attending middle school with her friends and getting caught up in the awkwardness of growing up. However, everything changes when her home is invaded by a masked man cloaked in black, destroying any sense of normality she once had. Revealed to possess latent Contractor abilities of her own, Suou is caught between family, friends, and her own sense of purpose as she ventures into the ruthless world of cutthroats and espionage that Contractors call home. -- -- Meanwhile in Tokyo, investigation surrounding Hell's Gate's sudden collapse is underway, and prophetic signs of doom point in the direction of a silver-haired doll. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- TV - Oct 9, 2009 -- 357,284 7.47
Divergence Eve 2: Misaki Chronicles -- -- Radix -- 13 eps -- Original -- Adventure Drama Mecha Military Sci-Fi Space -- Divergence Eve 2: Misaki Chronicles Divergence Eve 2: Misaki Chronicles -- Through the long distance warp called the "Exodus Project", Worns, Ryer and the -- other crew members of "Watchers Nest" manage to escape from the Earth. Misaki, who -- was attending the final battle with "Ghoul" at that time, isn't present there and -- before her eyes, the earth changes and gets enclosed by a time barrier. -- -- Ryer and the others search for a way to escape from this space time maze, but the -- earth changes to various forms. Innumerable "Nows" appear due to varying time axes. -- -- And also Misaki, who should have disappeared because of the Exodus Project incident, -- still afortiori. Before Ryer and the others, different forms of Misaki appear. The -- Misaki from training school, the Misaki from her childhood days. -- -- Are these reflections caused by the conflicts that exist inside Misaki? -- -- She awakens a second time and when she derives the response, that history is leading -- into a completely differnet direction now. -- -- Will Misaki, Ryer and the others be able to find a real happy end?! -- -- (Source: AnimeNfo) -- -- Licensor: -- ADV Films, Sentai Filmworks -- 6,478 6.28
Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu -- Gohan Son and Piccolo are peacefully playing when they sense a powerful entity approaching Earth. It soon reaches everyone's ears that this entity is in fact a small planet on a deadly collision course with Earth. Gokuu Son and Kuririn attempt to change the small planet's path with a Kamehameha, but the attack fails and the two warriors are blown away. However, after coming very close to Earth's surface, the object changes direction on its own and explodes soon after. -- -- The small planet reveals itself to be a vehicle for what seems to be a castle. A large army emerges out of the structure and declares that the planet is now in possession of Slug, king of the universe. While defending the city against the invaders' attack, Gohan loses his Dragon Ball, allowing Slug to take it. After reading Bulma's mind and stealing her Dragon Radar, Slug commands his army to collect the wish-granting relics. With the Dragon Balls in his possession, he uses them to wish his youth back. Now young, wise, and very powerful, Slug commences world domination. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Mar 9, 1991 -- 94,615 6.58
Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu -- Gohan Son and Piccolo are peacefully playing when they sense a powerful entity approaching Earth. It soon reaches everyone's ears that this entity is in fact a small planet on a deadly collision course with Earth. Gokuu Son and Kuririn attempt to change the small planet's path with a Kamehameha, but the attack fails and the two warriors are blown away. However, after coming very close to Earth's surface, the object changes direction on its own and explodes soon after. -- -- The small planet reveals itself to be a vehicle for what seems to be a castle. A large army emerges out of the structure and declares that the planet is now in possession of Slug, king of the universe. While defending the city against the invaders' attack, Gohan loses his Dragon Ball, allowing Slug to take it. After reading Bulma's mind and stealing her Dragon Radar, Slug commands his army to collect the wish-granting relics. With the Dragon Balls in his possession, he uses them to wish his youth back. Now young, wise, and very powerful, Slug commences world domination. -- -- Movie - Mar 9, 1991 -- 94,615 6.58
Final Approach -- -- Zexcs -- 13 eps -- Visual novel -- Comedy Drama Romance Slice of Life -- Final Approach Final Approach -- Ever since their parents died a few years ago, Ryo and his sister Akane have been living alone together. Despite their difficult situation, they are still living reasonably happy and normal lives. However, everything is about to be flipped upside-down due to a secret government project. Due to increasingly low birth rates in Japan, the Japanese government is testing a program in which two young people are forced to marry. Ryo wants no part of it, but he is given little choice in the matter; his new fiancée, Shizuka, comes to his home late one night with several dozen government issued bodyguards, who are there to ensure the success of the new couple. Unlike Ryo, Shizuka couldn’t be more willing to go along with this new program, and eagerly goes about her wifely duties, despite his objections. With meddling friends, pushy bodyguards, and an overenthusiastic new fiancée, Ryo’s life has taken a turn in a direction the young man certainly didn’t expect. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- TV - Oct 3, 2004 -- 32,102 6.55
Geisters: Fractions of the Earth -- -- - -- 26 eps -- Original -- Action Military Sci-Fi -- Geisters: Fractions of the Earth Geisters: Fractions of the Earth -- At the end of the 21st century, a meteorite collision plunged Earth into apocalypse, and the remnants of humanity went in two different directions to survive. The aristocratic Dobias headed into space, while the earthy Shioru went underground. Centuries later, they returned to Earth's surface and are now fighting for control of the planet—that is, when they're not busy fending off a new species of predators known simply as Creatures. Amidst this conflict, an elite team of five soldiers known as Geisters protects humanity from the Creatures and from each other. Although part of the Dobias, the Geisters have recently accepted a soldier of Shioru descent onto the team, and her take-charge personality leaves the other members unsure about her loyalty and usefulness to the group. With Dobias and Shioru tensions heating up on the political floor, Creatures running rampant, and a dangerous new weapon being developed in secret, the Geisters must maintain peace among themselves and the rest of society. -- -- (Source: Anime Crash) -- TV - Oct 6, 2001 -- 1,282 5.77
Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Seiran 3 -- -- Production I.G -- 4 eps -- Novel -- Action Drama Military Sci-Fi Space -- Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Seiran 3 Ginga Eiyuu Densetsu: Die Neue These - Seiran 3 -- At the behest of Admiral Yang Wen-li, defected intelligence officer Commander Baghdash makes an emergency broadcast announcing that the National Salvation Military Council staged a coup under the direction of the Galactic Empire. Despite the lack of physical evidence, this debilitating declaration inspires former Rear Admiral Andrew Lynch to reveal his own role in sowing discord within the Free Planets Alliance. A fatal shootout between Lynch and Admiral Dwight Greenhill acts as the final death knell to the short-lived period of martial rule. -- -- Within the Galactic Empire, footage of Duke Otto von Braunschweig's nuclear bombing of Westerland results in the dissolution of the Lippstadt League. Marquis Reinhard von Lohengramm's decision to allow the massacre for personal gain creates a rift between him and High Admiral Siegfried Kircheis, souring the taste of their inevitable victory. Now on the cusp of achieving absolute power, Reinhard is embattled by his apparent personal failings and the heavy responsibilities of leadership. -- -- Though the civil wars in both the Alliance and the Empire are coming to a close, neither side can ever regain what is lost. Yang Wen-li and Reinhard von Lohengramm each take bitter solace in the knowledge that just on the other side of the galaxy is a worthy opponent—and a true equal. -- -- Movie - Nov 29, 2019 -- 15,742 8.22
Jinkou no Rakuen -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Original -- Dementia -- Jinkou no Rakuen Jinkou no Rakuen -- Psychedelic –and at times sinister– music by Shinpei Kikuchi accompanies a disorienting display of reproduced imagery taken from magazines and posters of sunny beaches and bikini models. Tanaami made positive and negative reprographic prints of these images onto transparent cel sheets, placed them on top of one another, and twisted them in different directions to create a moiré effect. Speaking on the work, Tanaami explained his paradise only exists in the world of reproduction. -- -- (Source: Collaborative Cataloging Japan) -- Movie - ??? ??, 1975 -- 331 4.99
Kachou Ouji -- -- AIC, APPP -- 13 eps -- Original -- Sci-Fi Adventure Music Slice of Life Space Comedy -- Kachou Ouji Kachou Ouji -- Oji Tanaka has a wife, a child and a mundane job as a salary man in Tokyo's modern society. But life wasn't dull for him to begin with; 15 years ago, he was known as "Gabriel", leader of a short-lived heavy metal band called Black Heaven. Oji's life gets a sudden change in direction when he is invited by a mysterious blonde woman named Layla to pick up his Gibson Flying V and once again display his "legendary" guitar skills, not knowing that his music generates power for a massive weapon in an intergalactic war. -- -- (Source: ANN) -- -- Licensor: -- Discotek Media, Geneon Entertainment USA -- 25,874 7.01
Magic Kaito -- -- TMS Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Adventure Comedy Romance Shounen -- Magic Kaito Magic Kaito -- Magic is not real—everyone knows that. When performed by a true expert, however, magic possesses the ability to amaze and wonder its audience. Kaito Kuroba, son of world-famous stage magician Touichi Kuroba, is no stranger to this fact. Well-versed in the arts of deception and misdirection, Kaito frequently disrupts the lives of those around him with flashy tricks and pranks. But when Kaito accidentally stumbles upon a hidden passage in his home, he discovers a secret that may well have been the cause of his father's death eight years ago—the dove-white outfit of Kid the Phantom Thief. Wanting to find out more about his father, Kaito dons the outfit and searches for the Pandora Gem that is said to grant immortality. However, he is not the only one after the gem—the organization responsible for his father's death is also hot on his tail! -- -- Magic Kaito follows the rebirth of Kaitou Kid, phantom thief of the night. Utilizing his dummies, disguises, and signature card gun, Kaito sets out to steal the world's most precious jewels, uncovering the truth behind his father's death and the rumored Pandora Gem along the way. -- -- Special - Apr 17, 2010 -- 57,983 7.80
Mawaru Penguindrum -- -- Brain's Base -- 24 eps -- Original -- Mystery Comedy Dementia Psychological Drama -- Mawaru Penguindrum Mawaru Penguindrum -- For the Takakura family, destiny is an ever-spinning wheel, pointing passionately in their direction with equal tides of joy and sorrow before ticking on to the next wishmaker. With their parents gone, twin brothers Kanba and Shouma live alone with their beloved little sister Himari, whose poor health cannot decline any further. -- -- On the day Himari is given permission to temporarily leave the hospital, her brothers take her out to the aquarium to celebrate, where the family's supposed fate is brought forth with her sudden collapse. However, when Himari is inexplicably revived by a penguin hat from the aquarium's souvenir shop, the hand of fate continues to tick faithfully forward. -- -- With her miraculous recovery, though, comes a cost: there is a new entity within her body, whose condition for keeping her fate at bay sends the boys on a wild goose chase for the mysterious "Penguin Drum." In their search, the boys will have to follow the threads of fate leading from their own shocking past and into the lives of other wishmakers vying for the Penguin Drum, all hoping to land upon their chosen destiny. -- -- 253,856 7.97
Mawaru Penguindrum -- -- Brain's Base -- 24 eps -- Original -- Mystery Comedy Dementia Psychological Drama -- Mawaru Penguindrum Mawaru Penguindrum -- For the Takakura family, destiny is an ever-spinning wheel, pointing passionately in their direction with equal tides of joy and sorrow before ticking on to the next wishmaker. With their parents gone, twin brothers Kanba and Shouma live alone with their beloved little sister Himari, whose poor health cannot decline any further. -- -- On the day Himari is given permission to temporarily leave the hospital, her brothers take her out to the aquarium to celebrate, where the family's supposed fate is brought forth with her sudden collapse. However, when Himari is inexplicably revived by a penguin hat from the aquarium's souvenir shop, the hand of fate continues to tick faithfully forward. -- -- With her miraculous recovery, though, comes a cost: there is a new entity within her body, whose condition for keeping her fate at bay sends the boys on a wild goose chase for the mysterious "Penguin Drum." In their search, the boys will have to follow the threads of fate leading from their own shocking past and into the lives of other wishmakers vying for the Penguin Drum, all hoping to land upon their chosen destiny. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Sentai Filmworks -- 253,856 7.97
Mekakucity Days -- -- - -- 5 eps -- Music -- Music Psychological Sci-Fi -- Mekakucity Days Mekakucity Days -- Mekakucity Days is a series of music videos that tell the stories of some of the members of the "Mekakushi-dan." -- -- Kagerou Daze -- In the scorching heat haze of summer, Hibiya Amamiya feels every day is monotonous. On a swing in a park, he meets up with Hiyori Asahina, who gently strokes the cat in her arms. However, when the cat leaps away, Hiyori runs headlong into a never-ending tragedy—and Hibiya will do whatever it takes to see her safe. -- -- Headphone Actor -- "The end of the world is nigh," the news broadcast proclaims. Amidst the chaos, Takane Enomoto hears a voice in her headphones, asking if she wants to live. Following its directions, she races onward, but what awaits her may not be the salvation that she desires. -- -- Souzou Forest -- Due to her red eyes and white hair, everybody sees Mari Kozakura as a monster. Although she lacks the courage to do so, she dreams of escaping her house in the forest where she lives alone, imagining the world outside. Fortunately, her lonesome life begins to change with a simple knock on the door. -- -- Konoha no Sekai Jijou -- The android-like being Konoha lacks many memories. What he recalls are feelings of longing, but by who and for who, he cannot place. What he does know, however, is that in the heat haze of summer, a young boy and girl face a tragedy. But fate is unchangeable, and his desperate attempts to save them can never seem to rewrite the future. -- -- Toumei Answer -- Shintarou Kisaragi knows how every day will go. Blessed with a photographic memory, he knows he will score full marks on his next exam, and he knows that Ayano Tateyama, the girl who sits next to him, will do poorly. But with his genius also comes unrelenting boredom; not even Ayano's bright smile and optimistic outlook can make him waver. His apathy may finally be broken, however, when Ayano does something that shakes Shintarou to his very core. -- -- Music - May 30, 2012 -- 8,282 7.51
Monster Strike: Rain of Memories -- -- - -- 1 ep -- Game -- Action Game Fantasy -- Monster Strike: Rain of Memories Monster Strike: Rain of Memories -- - They deserve better. Someone better than me... - -- -- The stage is set one year before Ren arrives in Kaminohara. -- Akira has moved to Kaminohara from Sendai, all for the sake of revenge. -- The wounds that his sister suffered in an MS battle fuel his vengeance. -- -- A lost Haruma is given directions by Akira, -- revealing a caring side to the usually cold and calculating teen. -- Haruma observes Akira's violent MS battles, -- and realizes that Akira fights while reading his enemies' attacks. -- -- Haruma proposes the idea of recruiting Akira to his teammates, -- Aoi and Minami. Surprised and naturally reluctant, -- Aoi and Minami decide to trust Haruma. -- For Haruma has resisted recruiting the fourth member of their team, -- saving the spot for the right person... -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- ONA - Dec 3, 2016 -- 2,318 6.50
Nami yo Kiitekure -- -- Sunrise -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Seinen -- Nami yo Kiitekure Nami yo Kiitekure -- Restaurant worker Minare Koda has recently been through a bad breakup. Heartbroken and drunk after a night out, she rants about her misery to a complete stranger—Kanetsugu Matou, a radio station director local to Sapporo, Hokkaido. -- -- The next day at work, Minare is shocked to hear a recording of herself from the previous night playing over the radio. Flustered, she rushes to the radio station in a frenzy to stop the broadcast. As she confronts Matou, a chain of events leads to her giving an impromptu talk live on air, explaining her savage drunken speech. With her energetic voice, she delivers a smooth dialogue with no hesitation, which Matou recognizes as raw talent. -- -- Minare soon becomes a late-night talk show host under Matou's direction, covering amusing narratives set in Sapporo, all while balancing her day job and personal life to make ends meet. -- -- 62,168 7.37
Nami yo Kiitekure -- -- Sunrise -- 12 eps -- Manga -- Comedy Drama Romance Seinen -- Nami yo Kiitekure Nami yo Kiitekure -- Restaurant worker Minare Koda has recently been through a bad breakup. Heartbroken and drunk after a night out, she rants about her misery to a complete stranger—Kanetsugu Matou, a radio station director local to Sapporo, Hokkaido. -- -- The next day at work, Minare is shocked to hear a recording of herself from the previous night playing over the radio. Flustered, she rushes to the radio station in a frenzy to stop the broadcast. As she confronts Matou, a chain of events leads to her giving an impromptu talk live on air, explaining her savage drunken speech. With her energetic voice, she delivers a smooth dialogue with no hesitation, which Matou recognizes as raw talent. -- -- Minare soon becomes a late-night talk show host under Matou's direction, covering amusing narratives set in Sapporo, all while balancing her day job and personal life to make ends meet. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 62,168 7.37
Nisekoi -- -- Shaft -- 20 eps -- Manga -- Harem Comedy Romance School Shounen -- Nisekoi Nisekoi -- Raku Ichijou, a first-year student at Bonyari High School, is the sole heir to an intimidating yakuza family. Ten years ago, Raku made a promise to his childhood friend. Now, all he has to go on is a pendant with a lock, which can only be unlocked with the key which the girl took with her when they parted. -- -- Now, years later, Raku has grown into a typical teenager, and all he wants is to remain as uninvolved in his yakuza background as possible while spending his school days alongside his middle school crush Kosaki Onodera. However, when the American Bee Hive Gang invades his family's turf, Raku's idyllic romantic dreams are sent for a toss as he is dragged into a frustrating conflict: Raku is to pretend that he is in a romantic relationship with Chitoge Kirisaki, the beautiful daughter of the Bee Hive's chief, so as to reduce the friction between the two groups. Unfortunately, reality could not be farther from this whopping lie—Raku and Chitoge fall in hate at first sight, as the girl is convinced he is a pathetic pushover, and in Raku's eyes, Chitoge is about as attractive as a savage gorilla. -- -- Nisekoi follows the daily antics of this mismatched couple who have been forced to get along for the sake of maintaining the city's peace. With many more girls popping up his life, all involved with Raku's past somehow, his search for the girl who holds his heart and his promise leads him in more unexpected directions than he expects. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- 895,558 7.63
Nodame Cantabile -- -- J.C.Staff -- 23 eps -- Manga -- Music Slice of Life Comedy Drama Romance Josei -- Nodame Cantabile Nodame Cantabile -- Shinichi Chiaki is a first class musician whose dream is to play among the elites in Europe. Coming from a distinguished family, he is an infamous perfectionist—not only is he highly critical of himself, but of others as well. The only thing stopping Shinichi from leaving for Europe is his fear of flying. As a result, he's grounded in Japan. -- -- During his fourth year at Japan's top music university, Shinichi happens to meet Megumi Noda or, as she refers to herself, Nodame. On the surface, she seems to be an unkempt girl with no direction in life. However, when Shinichi hears Nodame play the piano for the first time, he is in awe of the kind of music she creates. Nevertheless, Shinichi is dismayed to discover that Nodame is his neighbor, and worse, she ends up falling head over heels in love with him. -- -- TV - Jan 12, 2007 -- 267,029 8.31
Qiang Niang -- -- Hoods Entertainment -- 12 eps -- Game -- Action Military Sci-Fi Slice of Life Space Comedy -- Qiang Niang Qiang Niang -- Qiang Niang mainly tells of the protagonist Carrie, who has lost her combat memories, searching for herself and the story of her final "Awakening". In the years between 2025 to 2030, a world war involving the entire world has resulted in the demise of half the world's population, and humanity has already lost control of the direction the war shall go in. In order to seize ultimate victory, war has gradually been turned into a battle without people, similar to a game. War has already become about Satellite lasers, Bomb drones, Intelligent AI, a battlefield between unmanned gun turrets and tanks... Then, there are also a group of young maidens who uses outdated firearms to engage in battle —— the Gun Girls. -- ONA - Aug 18, 2017 -- 600 N/A -- -- Fuku-chan no Sensuikan -- -- Asahi Production, Shochiku Animation Institute -- 1 ep -- Other -- Military Comedy Historical -- Fuku-chan no Sensuikan Fuku-chan no Sensuikan -- Fuku-chan was one of the most popular newspaper comic strip boy-characters in Japan at the time. The film portrays a submarine attack on an enemy cargo ship. Though this, too, was to boost patriotism, Japanese children particularly enjoyed the scenes in which the kitchen crew cooked in the submarine kitchen. Released in November of the same year, the food shortage was quite serious in Japan, and the abundant food supply in the submarine kitchen -- vegetables, fruit, fish, rice, and more which were already luxury items in Japan at the time -- was prepared into various dishes along with a merry, rhythmic song. -- -- (Source: AniDB) -- Movie - Nov 9, 1944 -- 579 5.03
Rolling☆Girls -- -- Wit Studio -- 12 eps -- Original -- Action Adventure Slice of Life Super Power -- Rolling☆Girls Rolling☆Girls -- In a dystopian future where Japan's political organization has crumbled after the Great Tokyo War, Japan is broken up into 10 independent nations, with each nation controlled by a gang led by a "Best," a human-proclaimed prophet with destructive superpowers. Nozomi Moritomo is a "Rest"—a normal girl that has just started out as a rookie in the local gang. She wants to help the Best Masami Utoku, her childhood friend and role model, in the ongoing territorial dispute. -- -- When Masami becomes severely injured and unable to fight, Nozomi decides to go on a mission to complete the requests sent to Masami from all over Japan. Along the way, she meets Yukina Kosaka, a shy girl with no sense of direction; Ai Hibiki, an upbeat girl who loves eating; and Chiaya Misono, a quiet and mysterious girl that wears a gas mask. Together, the four girls travel all over the country on their motorcycles while getting involved in territorial wars, disagreements, and even suspicious conspiracies. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- 78,505 6.59
Sword Art Online: Progressive Movie - Hoshi Naki Yoru no Aria -- -- A-1 Pictures -- 1 ep -- Light novel -- Action Game Adventure Romance Fantasy -- Sword Art Online: Progressive Movie - Hoshi Naki Yoru no Aria Sword Art Online: Progressive Movie - Hoshi Naki Yoru no Aria -- "There's no way to beat this game. The only difference is when and where you die..." -- -- One month has passed since Akihiko Kayaba's deadly game began, and the body count continues to rise. Two thousand players are already dead. -- -- Kirito and Asuna are two very different people, but they both desire to fight alone. Nonetheless, they find themselves drawn together to face challenges from both within and without. Given that the entire virtual world they now live in has been created as a deathtrap, the surviving players of Sword Art Online are starting to get desperate, and desperation makes them dangerous to loners like Kirito and Asuna. As it becomes clear that solitude equals suicide, will the two be able to overcome their differences to find the strength to believe in each other, and in so doing survive? -- -- Sword Art Online: Progressive is a new version of the Sword Art Online tale that starts at the beginning of Kirito and Asuna's epic adventure—on the very first level of the deadly world of Aincrad! -- -- (Source: Yen Press) -- -- Licensor: -- Aniplex of America -- Movie - ??? ??, 2021 -- 94,949 N/ADragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu -- -- Toei Animation -- 1 ep -- Manga -- Action Sci-Fi Adventure Fantasy Shounen -- Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu Dragon Ball Z Movie 04: Super Saiyajin da Son Gokuu -- Gohan Son and Piccolo are peacefully playing when they sense a powerful entity approaching Earth. It soon reaches everyone's ears that this entity is in fact a small planet on a deadly collision course with Earth. Gokuu Son and Kuririn attempt to change the small planet's path with a Kamehameha, but the attack fails and the two warriors are blown away. However, after coming very close to Earth's surface, the object changes direction on its own and explodes soon after. -- -- The small planet reveals itself to be a vehicle for what seems to be a castle. A large army emerges out of the structure and declares that the planet is now in possession of Slug, king of the universe. While defending the city against the invaders' attack, Gohan loses his Dragon Ball, allowing Slug to take it. After reading Bulma's mind and stealing her Dragon Radar, Slug commands his army to collect the wish-granting relics. With the Dragon Balls in his possession, he uses them to wish his youth back. Now young, wise, and very powerful, Slug commences world domination. -- -- -- Licensor: -- Funimation -- Movie - Mar 9, 1991 -- 94,615 6.58
Wagamama☆Fairy Mirumo de Pon! -- -- Studio Hibari -- 172 eps -- Manga -- Kids Adventure Fantasy Magic Comedy Romance School Drama Shoujo -- Wagamama☆Fairy Mirumo de Pon! Wagamama☆Fairy Mirumo de Pon! -- Kaede is a cheerful and energetic eighth grader. When it comes to boys, however, she is hopelessly shy. -- -- One day, on her way home from school, Kaede walks into a mysterious shop and buys a colorful cocoa mug. When she reaches home, she casually peeks into the bottom of the mug and discovers an engraved note, which says, "If you read this message aloud while pouring hot cocoa into the mug, a love fairy ("muglox") will appear and grant your every wish." The skeptical but curious Kaede follows the directions and announces her wish to date Yuuki, the class heartthrob. Suddenly, the adorable blue Mirumo appears! We soon find out, however, that this cute little muglox would rather eat chocolate and create mischief than help Kaede. -- -- Mirumo, it seems, is prince of the muglox world. Horrified at the prospect of having to marry Rirumu, his princess bride-to-be, Mirumo has escaped the muglox world. Hot on his heels, however, are Rirumu, Yashichi the bounty hunter, and a cast of hundreds of muglox ranging from the good to the bad to the nutty. This gang of adorable troublemakers will see to it that school life for Kaede and her friends is never the same... -- -- (Source: mirmo-zibang) -- -- Licensor: -- VIZ Media -- TV - Apr 6, 2002 -- 15,504 7.30
Wakusei Robo Danguard Ace -- -- Toei Animation -- 56 eps -- Original -- Mecha Military Sci-Fi Shounen Space -- Wakusei Robo Danguard Ace Wakusei Robo Danguard Ace -- In order to explore the newly discovered planet, Promethe, there are many projects are running all over the world. -- -- Here in Japan, under the direction of Dr. Oedo, "Space Carrier Jasdum" and "Planet Robot Dangard A" are being built. Ichimonji Takuma is a candidate for the pilot of Dangard A. His father, Ichimonji Dantetsu, was a famous space pilot. -- -- However, Dantetsu went missing after a mysterious accident, and the people blamed him for the accident. In order to clear his name, Takuma is trying to become a space pilot and succeed in the project. Will Takuma become the pilot? -- 1,260 6.29
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